TP5

Collisional processes are integral mechanisms that both shape the final configuration of the Solar System, and modify planetary surfaces and small bodies from its birth until today.
This session aims at understanding planetary impact processes at all scales, in terms of impact cratering and ejecta dynamics, crater distribution and crater chronology, material mixing, shock metamorphism and other geochemical consequences, ejecta-atmosphere interactions, impact induced climatic and environmental effects, and biotic responses.
We welcome oral and poster presentations across this broad range of studies about natural or artificial impact collision phenomena on planetary surfaces and small bodies. In particular, abstracts on impact modelling, impact laboratory experiments, geologic and structural mapping, petrographic and geochemical analysis of impact products, as well as remote sensing observations from space missions to planets and small bodies. We also welcome the examination of competing hypotheses for the giant impact formation of terrestrial and outer solar system bodies. Finally, we also support abstracts investigating the DART impact, whose outcome will be observed by HERA few months after this conference.