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April 2002: C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, P.C. Thomas, J. Joseph, A.F. Cheng & N. Izenberg 2002.

Impact history of Eros: Craters and boulders. Icarus, 155, 104-118.

Full Published Manuscript (PDF)

March 2000: C.R. Chapman 2000.

The 1999 Sagan Medallist Address: Bringing Planetary Science to the Public. Speech at the Opening Session of the AAS/DPS in Padua, Italy, 11 October 1999.

Text of speech (transcribed from video/sound recordings, with illustrations) (html)

February 2000: C.R. Chapman 2000.

The asteroid/comet impact hazard: homo sapiens as dinosaur? In Prediction: Science, Decision Making, and the Future of Nature (ed. D. Sarewitz, R.A. Pielke, Jr. & R. Byerly; Island Press, Washington D.C.), pp. 107-134.

Full Preliminary Manuscript (with illustrations) (html)

March 1999: C.R. Chapman 1999.

Small worlds, up close. In Our Worlds: The Magnetism and Thrill of Planetary Exploration (ed. S. A. Stern, Cambridge Univ. Press), 65-91.

Full Preliminary Manuscript w/o illustrations (html)

January 1999: C.R. Chapman 1999.

Probing Europa's third dimension. Perspectives: Planetary Science, Science 283, 338-339.

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November 1998 : C.R. Chapman 1998.

Book Review of "Night Comes to the Cretaceous". EOS 79, 578.

Full Preliminary Manuscript (html)

July 1998: C.R. Chapman, W. J. Merline, P. Thomas 1998.

Cratering on Mathilde. Icarus 140, 28-33.

Full Manuscript with figures (Postscript)

December 1997: J. Veverka, P. Thomas, A. Harch, B. Clark, J. Bell, B. Carcich, J. Joseph, C. Chapman, W. Merline, M. Robinson, M. Malin, L.A. McFadden, S. Murchie, S. E. Hawkins III, R. Farquhar, N. Izenberg, A. Cheng 1997.

NEAR's flyby of 253 Mathilde: Images of a C asteroid. Science 278, 2109-2114.

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August 1997: C. R. Chapman 1997.

The asteroid/comet impact hazard. Case Study for "Workshop on Prediction in the Earth Sciences: Use and Misuse in Policy Making" (NCAR, Boulder, 10-12 July 1997, revised October 1998).

Full Manuscript (html)
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August 1997: C. Chapman 1997.

Galileo finds evidence for an ocean on Europa. Modern Astronomer 1(4), 16.

Draft Text

August 1997: C.R. Chapman 1997.

Gaspra and Ida: implications of spacecraft reconnaissance for NEO issues. In Near-Earth Objects: The United Nations Conference (ed. J.L. Remo, Annals NY Acad. Sci. 822) 227-235.

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June 1997: C.R. Chapman 1997.

Cratering on the Galilean satellites: Implications for the size distribution of cratering impacts in the Solar System. Meteoritics & Plan. Sci., 32, A27.

Full Abstract

June 1997: C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, B. Bierhaus, J. Keller, S. Brooks, and the Galileo SSI Team 1997.

Impactor populations on the Galilean satellites. Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 29, 984.

Full Abstract

April 1997: C.R. Chapman 1997.

"T. rex and the Crater of Doom" (book review). Nature, 387, 33.

Full Book Review

January 1997: C.R. Chapman 1997.

Asteroids: Mantles were battered to bits. Nature 385, 293- 295.

Full Article

January 1997: C.R. Chapman 1997.

Carl Sagan: an appreciation. Sky & Tel. 93(3), March 1997, 6-7.

Full Article

January 1997: C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, B. Bierhaus, J. Keller, S. Brooks, A. McEwen, B.R. Tufts, J. Moore, M. Carr, R. Greeley, K.C. Bender, R. Sullivan, J. Head, R. Pappalardo, M.J.S. Belton, G. Neukum, R. Wagner, C. Pilcher, and the Galileo Imaging Team 1997.

Populations of small craters on Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto: initial Galileo imaging results (extended abstract). Lunar & Planet. Sci. 28th.

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December 1996: C.R. Chapman, W. Merline, B. Bierhaus, J. Keller, S. Brooks, J. Head, R. Pappalardo 1996.

Cratering and pits on Europa: Insights from Galileo (abstract). Presented at EGS97, April 1997, Vienna.

Short Abstract

November 1996: C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, B. Bierhaus, S. Brooks, J. Keller 1996.

Cratering on Europa: preliminary insights from Galileo (extended abstract). Europa Ocean Conference, San Juan Capistrano CA, Nov. 12-14, abstract book p. 19.

Long Abstract (with figure)

November 1996: C.R. Chapman and W.J. Merline 1996.

Ganymede cratering: Preliminary Galileo G1 results (abstract). Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 28, 1139.

Short Abstract (includes figures)

November 1996: M.J.S. Belton, J.W. Head III, A.P. Ingersoll, R. Greeley, A.S. McEwen, K.P. Klaasen, D. Senske, R. Pappalardo, G. Collins, A.R. Vasavada, R. Sullivan, D. Simonelli, P. Geissler, M.H. Carr, M.E. Davies, J. Veverka, P.J. Gierasch, D. Banfield, M. Bell, C.R. Chapman, A. Anger, R. Greenberg, G. Neukum, C.B. Pilcher, R.F. Beebe, J.A. Burns, F. Fanale, W. Ip, T.V. Johnson, D. Morrison, J. Moore, G.S. Orton, P. Thomas, R.A. West 1996.

Galileo's first images of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites. Science 274, 377-385.

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November 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

Asteroids: relationships with other small bodies. Invited review, submitted to Proc. Asteroids/Comets/Meteors 1996.

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November 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

S-type asteroids, ordinary chondrites, and space weathering: the evidence from Galileo's Fly-bys of Gaspra and Ida. (Invited review). Meteoritics & Planet. Sci., 31, 699-726.

Short Abstract(includes some figures)
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Reprints with color covers are available of my "Invited Review" on the subject of Ida, Gaspra, S-type asteroids, ordinary chondrites, and space-weathering that appeared in the November 1996 issue of "Meteoritics and Planetary Science".

Write to me to Request an Ida Reprint: Suite 400, 1050 Walnut St., Boulder CO 80302.

October 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

The risk to civilization from extraterrestrial objects and implications of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet crash. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundeanstalt (Wien) 53, 51-54.

Short Abstract
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July 1996: E.V. Ryan and C.R. Chapman 1996.

Spectral variations on Ida: A space weathering trend? (extended abstract). Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. 31 A120-A121.

Long Abstract

March 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

Bombarding Mars lately. Nature 380, 23-24.

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March 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

Book review of "Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets" (by D. Steel). Meteoritics & Planet. Sci. 31, 313-314.

Full Book Review(html)
Full Book Review (Postscript)

March 1996: C.R. Chapman, E.V. Ryan, W.J. Merline, G. Neukum, R. Wagner, P.C. Thomas, J. Veverka, R.J. Sullivan 1996.

Cratering on Ida. Icarus 120, 77-86.

Short Abstract(includes some figures)
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March 1996: C.R. Chapman, J. Veverka, M.J.S. Belton, G. Neukum, and D. Morrison 1996.

Cratering on Gaspra. Icarus 120, 231-245.

Short Abstract
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February 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

Galileo observations of the impacts. The Collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter (eds. K.S. Noll, H.A. Weaver, P.D. Feldman; Cambridge Univ. Press), 121-132.

Short Abstract
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January 1996: C.R. Chapman 1996.

Children of the asteroids. The New Scientist, 10 Feb. 1996, 22-25.

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1995: C.R. Chapman, J. Veverka, P.C. Thomas, K. Klaasen, M.J.S. Belton, A. Harch, A. McEwen, T.V. Johnson, P. Helfenstein, M.E. Davies, W.J. Merline, T. Denk 1995.

Discovery and physical properties of Dactyl, a satellite of asteroid 243 Ida. Nature 374, 783-785.

Short Abstract
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1995: C.R. Chapman, W.J. Merline, K. Klaasen, T.V. Johnson, C. Heffernan, M.J.S. Belton, A.P. Ingersoll, and the Galileo Imaging Team 1995.

Preliminary results of Galileo direct imaging of S-L 9 impacts. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22, 1561-1564.

Short Abstract
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1994: M.J.S. Belton, C.R. Chapman, J. Veverka, K.P. Klaasen, A. Harch, R. Greeley, R. Greenberg, J.W. Head III, A. McEwen, D. Morrison, P.C. Thomas, M.E. Davies, M.H. Carr, G. Neukum, F.P. Fanale, D.R. Davis, C. Anger, P.J. Gierasch, A.P. Ingersoll, and C.B. Pilcher 1994.

First images of asteroid 243 Ida. Science 265, 1543-1547.

Short Abstract
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Full Paper (Postscript without illus.)

1994: C.R. Chapman, A.W. Harris, R. Binzel 1994.

Physical properties of near-Earth asteroids: implications for the hazard issue. In Hazards Due to Comets & Asteroids (Ed. T. Gehrels, Tucson: Univ. of Ariz. Press), 537-549.

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