Of shock-metamorphic features in apatite from terrestrial impact structures and possible implications for extra-terrestrial phosphates

STRUCTURES AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL PHOSPHATES. Gavin G. Kenny, 1 * Andreas Karlsson, 1 Martin Schmieder, 2,3 Martin J. Whitehouse, 1 Alexander A. Nemchin 1,4 and Jeremy J. Bellucci 1 1 Department of Geosciences, Swedish Museum of Natural History, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden, 2 Lunar and Planetary Institute – USRA, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston TX 77058, USA, 3 NASA – Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), 4 School of Earth and Planetary Science, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia *gkennyeire@gmail.com