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Assessments of the energy, mass and size of the Chicxulub Impactor
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola, Guadalupe Cordero-Tercero
In 1980, Alvarez and colleagues proposed that, in the transition from the Cretaceous to Paleogene, a large impactor collided with Earth being the cause of the mass extinction occur…
Superrotation on Venus: Driven By Waves Generated By Dissipation of the Transterminator Flow
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
Context: The superrotation phenomenon in the atmosphere on Venus has been known since the late 60's. But until now no mechanism proposed has satisfactorily explained this phenomeno…
Archean Paleo-climate: The first snowball?
Hector Javier Durand-Manterola
The model accepted is one where during the Archean Eon the Earths climate was clement despite the weaker Sun. The observational evidence that supports this concept is: the emergenc…
Martian gullies: Produced by fluidization of dry material
Yolanda Cedillo-Flores, Héctor Javier Durand-Manterola
The gullies on Mars were discovered in the year 1999.Since then several hypotheses have appeared trying to explain the presence of these gullies. The main hypotheses are the ones w…