Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals (45)

45. Pittarello L., Chernonozhkin S.M., Marchhart O., Martschini M., Merchel S., Wieser A., Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. 2025. A terrestrial rock instead of an ureilite: Caution is recommended to scientists working on material received from meteorite collections. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 60,2283-2292 (link) 

44. Bellesi M., Pratesi G., Di Michele A., Nazzareni S., Pittarello L., Goderis S. , Santini C., and Giuli G. 2025. Chromites in ordinary chondrite fusion crust. European Journal of Mineralogy 37,617-626 (link)

43. Iannini Lelarge S., Masotta M., Folco L., Ubide T., Suttle M.D., and Pittarello L. 2025 Melting experiments of an L6 ordinary chondrite: implications for the formation of alkali-rich achondrites .  Geochemistry 85,126293 (link)

42. Christ O., Barbaro A., Ferrière L., Pittarello L., Domeneghetti M.C., Brenker F., Nestola F., and Alvaro M. 2025 Shock heated graphite in three IAB iron meteorites – Implications on the formation of diamond. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 60,744-756 (link).

41. Chernonozhkin S. , Pittarello L., Hublet G., Weyer S., Horn I., Claeys Ph., Debaille V., Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. 2025. Metal differentiation on asteroids recorded in Zn and Fe isotopic signatures of ureilites.  Geochemical Perspective Letters 33, 38-43 (link)

40. Chernonozhkin S. , Pittarello L., Hublet G., Claeys Ph., Debaille V., Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. 2024. Fe, Zn, and Mg stable isotope systematics of acapulcoite lodranite clan meteorites.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science 59, 2956-2980 (link)

39. Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Chernonozhkin S. , Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. 2023. The vesiculated layer in the anomalous diogenite Northwest Africa 12973.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58,1677-1690  (link)

38. Reimold W.U., Hauser N., Oliveira A.L., Maciel A.R.P., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Wegner W., Fischer-Goedde M., Koeberl C., Debaille V., and Silva Maia de Souza C. 2023.  Genesis of the mafic impact melt rock in the northwest sector of the Vredefort Dome, South Africa. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58,907-944 (link)

37.  Rider-Stokes B.G., Greenwood R., Anand M., White L.F., Franchi I.A., Debaille V., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Yamaguchi A., Mikouchi T., and Claeys Ph. 2023.  Impact mixing among rocky planetesimals in the early Solar System from angrite oxygen isotopes. Nature Astronomy 7, 836-842  (link) 

36. Levi N.,  Pittarello L., Habermüller M.  2022. Structural characteristics of the curved Königsee-Lammertal-Traunsee fault system in Salzkammergut (Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria). Journal of Structural Geology 155,104503 (link)

35. Pittarello L., Levi N., Wegner W., and Stehlik H. 2022. The pseudotachylytes at the base of the Silvretta Nappe: a newly discovered recent generation and the tectonometamorphic evlution of the Nappe. Tectonophysics 822, 229185 (link)

34. Barbaro A., Nestola F., Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Murri M., Litasov K.D., Christ O., Alvaro M., and Domeneghetti M.C. 2022. Characterization of carbon phases in Yamato 74123 ureilite to constrain the meteorite shock history. American Mineralogist 107,377-384 (link)

33. Barbaro A., Domeneghetti M.C., Litasov K.D., Ferrière L., Pittarello L., Christ O., Lorenzon S., Alvaro M., and Nestola F.  2021. Origin of micrometer-sized impact diamonds in ureilites by catalytic growth involving Fe-Ni-silicide: the example of Kenna meteorite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 309, 286-298 (link)

32. Bechtold A., Brandstätter F., Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Greenwood R., and Koeberl C.  2021. Lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 11962: a regolith breccia containing records of titanium-rich lunar volcanisms and the high alkali suite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56, 971-991 (link)

31. Pickersgill A., Jaret S., Pittarello L., Fritz J., and Harris R. (in press) Shock effects in feldspars: An overview. In: Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Reimold W.U. and Koeberl C. Eds. GSA Special Papers, ch. 23 (link)

30. Epstein J., Pittarello L., Crósta A.P., and Koeberl C. 2021 Impact-induced hydrothermal dissolution in pyroxene: Petrographic and geochemical characterization of basalt-dominated polymict impact breccias from the Vargeão Dome, Brazil. In: Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Reimold W.U. and Koeberl C. Eds. GSA Special Papers, ch. 24 (link)

29. Pittarello L., Daly L., Pickersgill A. E., Ferrière L., and Lee M. R. 2020. Shock metamorphism in plagioclase and selective amorphization. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 1103-1115 (link )

28. Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Feignon J.-G., Osinski G. R., and Koeberl C. 2020. Preferred orientation distribution of shock-induced planar microstructures in quartz and feldspar. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 1082-1092 (link )

27. Pittarello L., Fritz J., Roszjar J., Lenz C., Chanmuang N. C., and Koeberl C. 2020. Partial amorphization of experimentally shocked plagioclase: a spectroscopic study. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55, 669-678 (link)

26. McKibbin S.J., Pittarello L., Makarona C., Hamann C., Hecht L., Chernonozhkin S.M., Goderis S., Claeys Ph. 2019. Petrogenesis of main group pallasite meteorites based on relationships between texture, mineralogy, and geochemistry. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 2814-2844   (link)

25. Pittarello L., McKibbin S.J., Yamaguchi A., Ji G., Schryvers D., Debaille V., Claeys Ph. 2019. Two generations of exsolution lamellae in pyroxene from Asuka 09545: clues to the thermal evolution of silicates in mesosiderite. American Mineralogist 104, 1663-1672 (link)

24. Pittarello L., Goderis S., Soens B., McKibbin S.J., Giuli G., Bariselli F., Dias B., Helber B., Lepore G.O., Vanhaecke F., Koeberl C., Magin T., and Claeys Ph. 2019. Meteoroid atmospheric entry investigated with plasma flow experiments: Petrography and geochemistry of the recovered material. Icarus 331, 170-178 (link)

23. Helber B., Dias B., Bariselli F., Zavalan L., Pittarello L., Goderis S., Soens B., McKibbin S.J., Claeys Ph., and Magin T. 2019. Analysis of Meteoroid Ablation Based on Plasma Wind-tunnel Experiments, Surface Characterization, and Numerical Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal 876, 120 (link).

22. Pittarello L., Yamaguchi A., Roszjar J., Debaille V., Koeberl C., and Claeys Ph. 2019. To be or not to be oxidized: a case study of olivine behavior in the fusion crust of ureilite A 09368 and H chondrites A 09004 and A 09502. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 1563-1578 (link)

21. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Fourie F., Pittarello L. 2018. Comparative study of pseudotachylite microstructures in felsic and mafic rocks from the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Implications for the experimental studies. South African Journal of Geology 121, 403-420. (link)

20. Van Roosbroek N., Hamann C., McKibbin S., Greshake A., Wirth R., Pittarello L., Hecht L., Claeys Ph., and Debaille V. 2017. Immiscible silicate liquids and phosphoran olivine in Netschaeevo IIE silicate: analogue for planetesimal core-mantle boundaries. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 197, 378-395. (link)

19. Dehant V. et al. (Planet Topers Group) 2016. PLANET TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their Reservoirs. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 46, 369. (link).

18. Van Roosbroek N., Pittarello L., Greshake A., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. 2016. First finding of impact melt in the IIE Netschaëvo meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 51, 372-389. (link)

17. Pittarello L., Roszjar J., Mader D., Debaille V., Claeys Ph., and Koeberl C. 2015. Cathodoluminescence as a tool to discriminate impact melt, shocked and unshocked volcanics: A case study of samples from the El'gygytgyn impact structure. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1954-1969. (link).

16. Pittarello L., Baert K., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. 2015. Screening and classification of ordinary chondrites by Raman spectroscopy. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1718-1732. (link)

15. Pittarello L., Nestola F., Viti C., Crósta A.P., and Koeberl C. 2015. Melting and cataclastic features in shatter cones in basalt from the Vista Alegre impact structure, Brazil. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1228–1243. (link)

14. Van Roosbroek N., Debaille V., Pittarello L., Goderis S., Humayun M., Hecht L., Jourdan F., Spicuzza M.J., Vanhaecke F., and Claeys Ph. 2015. The formation of IIE iron meteorites investigated by the chondrule-bearing Mont Dieu meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 1173-1196. (link)

13. Pittarello L., Ji G., Yamaguchi A., Schryvers D., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. 2015. From olivine to ringwoodite: a TEM study of a complex process. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, 944-957. (link).

12. Pittarello L., Habler G., Abart R., and Rhede D. 2015. Garnet growth in frictional melts of the Ivrea Zone (Italy). Italian Journal of Geosciences 134, 149-161. (link)

11. Pittarello L. and Koeberl C. 2013. Petrography of impact glasses and melt breccias from the El’gygytgyn impact structure, Russia.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1236–1250. (link)

10. Pittarello L. and Koeberl C. 2013. Clast size distribution (CSD) and other geometrical features in shocked and unshocked rocks from the El'gygytgyn impact structure. MAPS,  Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1325–1338. (link)

9. Pittarello L., Schulz T., Koeberl C., Hoffmann J.E., and Muenker C. 2013. Petrography, geochemistry and Hf-Nd isotope evolution of drill core and target rocks from the El'gygytgyn impact crater, NE Chukotka, Arctic Russia. MAPS,  Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1160–1198. (link)

8. Koeberl C., Pittarello L., Reimold W.U., Raschke U., Brigham-Grette J., Melles M., and Minyuk P. 2013. El'gygytgyn impact crater, Chukotka, Arctic Russia: Impact cratering aspects of the 2009 ICDP drilling project. MAPS,  Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1108–1129. (link)

7. Raschke U., Reimold U., Zaag P., Pittarello L., and Koeberl C. 2013. Lithostratigraphy of the impactite and bedrock section in ICDP drill core D1c from the El'gygytgyn impact crater, Russia. MAPS,  Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1143–1159. (link)

6. Hellevang H., Dypvik H., Kalleson E., Pittarello L., and Koeberl C. 2013. Alteration of El'gygytgyn impact melts – some information of value for Martian studies? MAPS,  Special Issue: The 2009 ICDP drilling project at the El'gygytgyn impact structure in Arctic Russia. Vol. 48, 1287–1295. (link)

5. Pittarello L., Pennacchioni G., and Di Toro G. 2012. Amphibolite-facies pseudotachylytes in the Premosello metagabbro (Ivrea Zone, Southern Alps, Italy). Tectonophysics 580, 43-57. (link)

4. Crósta A., Kazzuo-Vieira C., Pittarello L., Koeberl C., and Kenkmann T. 2012. Geology and impact features of Vargeao Dome, southern Brazil. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 47, 51-71. (link)

3. Pittarello L., Pennacchioni G., and Di Toro G. 2010. Deep-seated pseudotachylytes from the Ivrea Zone metagabbros (Southern Alps, Italy). Trabajos de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo 30, 627-632. (link)

2. Pittarello L., Di Toro G., Bizzarri A., Pennacchioni G., Hadizadeh J., and Cocco M. 2008. Energy partitioning during seismic slip in pseudotachylyte-bearing faults (Gole Larghe Fault, Adamello, Italy). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269, 131-139. (link)

1. Menegon L., Pennacchioni G., Heilbronner R., and Pittarello L. 2008. Evolution of quartz microstructure and c-axis crystallographic preferred orientation within ductilely deformed granitoids (Arolla unit, Western Alps). Journal of Structural Geology 30, 1332-1347. (link)

Not peer-reviewed journals (9)

9. Yamaguchi A., Kimura M., Imae N., Pittarello L., Debaille V., Goderis S., and Claeys Ph. 2018. Meteorite Newsletter 26. link

8. Yamaguchi A., Kimura M., Pittarello L., Imae N., Debaille V., Claeys Ph., and Kojima H. 2016. Meteorite Newsletter 25. link

7. Yamaguchi A., Pittarello L., Kimura M., and Kojima H. 2014. Meteorite Newsletter 23. link

6. Pittarello L. 2010. Study of exhumed paleo-seismic faults as a gauge to estimate earthquake source parameters. Plinius (Italian appendix of the European Journal of Mineralogy) 36.

5. Pittarello L., Pennacchioni G., Di Toro G., 2009. Deep-seated pseudotachylyte in the Ivrea Zone metagabbros (Southern Alps, Italy). Rendiconti online Soc. Geol. It., Vol. 5, pp. 164-167 (English and Italian). link

4. Di Toro G., Nielsen S., Pennacchioni G., Pittarello L., Hirose T., Shimamoto T., 2007. Anatomia di un terremoto di 30 Ma di anni fa da una faglia esumata (Faglia delle Gole Larghe, Adamello, Italia). Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, Nuova Serie 4, 220-221 (English and Italian). link

3. Pennacchioni G., Bistacchi A., Di Toro G., Massironi M., Menegon L., Pittarello L., 2007. Un database geologico per segnalazioni di pseudotachiliti nelle Alpi. Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, Nuova Serie 4, 281-282 (English and Italian). link

2. Pittarello L., Di Toro G., Bizzarri A., Hadizadeh J., Pennacchioni G., 2006. Stima della ripartizione dell’energia sismica in faglie a pseudotachiliti (Faglia delle Gole Larghe, batolite dell’Adamello, Italia). Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, Nuova Serie 2, 170-171 (English and Italian). link

1. Menegon L., Pittarello L., Pennacchioni G., Heilbronner R., 2006. Evoluzione microstrutturale e tessiturale del quarzo durante la deformazione duttile di graniti medio crostali (Unità di Arolla, Alpi Occidentali). Rendiconti della Società Geologica Italiana, Nuova Serie 2, 152-153 (English and Italian). link

Conference proceedings (108)

2025

Pittarello L., Griffiths T., Giuli G., Gemmi M., and Parlanti P. From the Universal-Stage to TEM-based electron diffraction: studies on shock metamorphism. MinPet Leoben, Austria.

Pittarello L., Carone L., De Santis V., Gemmi M., Parlanti P., Steiger-Thisrfeld A., Di Michele A., Pratesi G., and Giuli G. Coexisting polymorphs in shocked rocks investigated by EBSD and TEM. EPSC Abstracts Vol. 18, EPSC-DPS2025-464, 2025 Helsinki, Finnland.

Barbaro A., Bonazzi M., Pittarello L., Domeneghetti M.C., Brenker F. E., Langone A., Molinari S., Novella D., Nava J., Alvaro M., Nestola F. Mineralogical and Geochemical Characterisation of a New Lunar Meteorite. SGI-SIMP Padova, Italy.

De Santis V., Carone L., Pittarello L., Carone L., Pratesi G., Gemmi M., Parlanti P., Steiger-Thirsfeld A., Di Michele A., and Giuli G. First find of coexisting wadsleyite and ringwoodite in the Alfianello L6 ordinary chondrite. XX Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, Bormio, Italy.

2024

Pittarello L., Chernonozhkin S., Marchhart O., Marschini M., Merchel S., Wieser A., Vanhaecke F., Vielleneuve J., and Goders S. First find of a serpentinized peridotite clast in a ureilite? When a mix-up in the lab can result into a sensational claim. 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Brussels, Belgium.

Chernonozhkin S.M., Pittarello L., Hublet G., Claeys Ph., Debaille V., Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. Fe, Mg, and Zn stable isotope geochemistry of acapulcoite-lodranite meteorite. 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Brussels, Belgium.

Gutierrez Pardo Y.A., Reimold W.U., Hauser N., Gibson R.L., Reimold, Lopes-Oliveira A., Koeberl C., Schulz T., Pittarello L., and Wegner W. The Vredefort impact melt rock (Vredefort granophyre): new insights from chemical analysis inclusing multi-isotopes studies. 87th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Brussels, Belgium.

Carone L., De Santis V., Pittarello L., Pratesi G., Gemmi M., Parlanti P., Steiger-Thirsfeld A., Di Michele A., and Giuli G. First find of wadsleyite and ringwoodite in the Alfianello L6 ordinary chondrite. XIX Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, Bormio, Italy.

2023

Pittarello L., Chernonozhkin S., Downes H., Marchhart O., Merchel S., Wieser A., Vanhacke F., Villeneuve J., and Goderis S.. An uncommon terrestrial rock that was believed to be a meteorite. MinWien 2023, Vienna, Austria.

Iannini Lelarge S., Masotta M., Folco L., Ubide T., Suttle M.D., Wegner W., and Pittarello L. Melting experiments reproducing early differentiation in primitive achondrites. MinWien 2023, Vienna, Austria.

Iannini Lelarge S., Maostta M., Folco L, Ubide T., Suttle M.D., and Pittarello L.  Melting experiments of an L6 ordinary chondrite: Insights into early planetesimal differentiation and al-kali-rich achondrite formation. 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Los Angeles, USA.

Iannini Lelarge S., Masotta M., Folco L., Pittarello L., and Suttle M. Partial melting experiments on a CM2 chondrite: implications for differentiation of oxidized planetesimals and angrite parent body formation. SGI-SIMP Meeting, Potenza, Italy.

Chernonozhkin S.M., Goderis S., Hublet G.C., Weyer S., Horn I., Pittarello L., Claeys Ph., Debaille V. and Vanhaecke F. Fe, Zn and Mg stable isotope records of early differentiation and core formation of the ureilite parent body Goldschmidt Conference, Lyon, France.

Carone L., De Santis V., Pittarello L., Pratesi G., Di MIchele A., and Giuli G., First find of ringwoodite in the Alfianello L6 ordinary chondrite. SISP (Italiany Planetology) Meeting, Perugia, Italy

De Santis V., Pittarello L., Carone L., Pratesi G., Di Michele A., and Giuli G. Mineralogical characterization and microchemical analysis of the Alfianello, Monte Milone and Siena ordinary chondrites. SISP (Italiany Planetology) Meeting, Perugia, Italy.

Iannin Lelarge S., Masotta M., Folco L., Mancini L., and Pittarello L., Early differentiation of planetesimals: insights from melting experiments of an L6 ordinary chondrite SISP (Italiany Planetology) Meeting, Perugia, Italy.

Rider-Stokes B.G., Pittarello L., White L.F., Anand M., Degli Alessandriti G., Franchi I.A., and Greenwood R.C. Chronological Anchor(s) awaigh: evidence of themral processing of D'Orbigny angrite reveals an imperfect anchor for isochron construction LPSC, Houston, TX, USA 

2022

Pittarello L., Chernonozhkin S.M., Ferrière L., Roszjar J., Goderis S., and Rider-Stokes B. Stony achondrite meteorites: just normal rocks! SGI-SIMP Meeting, Turin, Italy (keynote).

Pittarello L., Levi N., Wegner W., and Stehlik H. The base of the Silvretta Nappe: a youngest generation of pseudotachylytes contributes to the understanding of the deformation at the base of the upper plate. SGI-SIMP Meeting, Turin, Italy.

Pittarello L., Fanesi E., Kolitsch U., and Giuli G. The natural occurrence of native iron in basalt from Bühl near Weimar, Kassel, Germany: a new study based on historical samples. PANGEO, Leoben, Austria.

Reimold W.U., Hauser N., Pereira Maciel A.R., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Wegner W., Fischer-Gödde M., and Koeberl C. Genesis of the mafic granophyre at the Vredefort, South Africa: new geochemical and isotopic constraints. 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Glasgow, UK.

Rider-Stokes B.G., Greenwood R.C., Anand M., White L.F., Franchi I.A., Debaille V., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Yamaguchi A., Mikouchi T., and Claeys Ph. Outward displacement of rocky planetesimals in the Early Solar System: Oxygen isotope evidence from angrites. 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Glasgow, UK.

Bellesi M., Pratesi G., Di Michele A., Nazzareni S., Pittarello L., Goderis S., Santini C., and Giuli G. Chromites in ordinary chondrite fusion crusts. XVII Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, Napoli, Italy. 

Iannini Lelarge S., Masotta M., Folco L., Mancini L., and Pittarello L. Non equilibrium melting of partially differentiated asteroids: insights from partial melting experiments on L6 chondrite DAV01001. EGU, Vienna, Austria.

2021

Pittarello L., Levi N., Wegner W., and Stehlik H. The youngest pseudotachylyte generation at the base of the Silvretta Nappe and the upper plate deformation. Meeting of the Austrian Mineralogical Society, Vienna, Austria.

Franza A., Mattes J., Pittarello L., and Pratesi G. Royal Imperial minerals. The mineralogical collections of the Holy Roman Emperors Joseph II (1740–1791) and Leopold II (1747–1792) and between museology, science, and history. 3rd European Mineralogical Conference, Krakow, Poland.

Pittarello L., S. M. Chernonozhkin S.M., Goderis S., Vanhaecke F., and Downes H. A puzzling fragment from the Dyalpur Ureilite: anomalous components, microstructures, and geochemistry. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Chicago, USA.

Ferrière L., Pittarello L., Chernonozhkin S. M., Vanhaecke F., and Goderis S. The anomalous diogenite Northwest Africa 12973. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Chicago, USA.

Barbaro A., Domeneghetti M.C., Litasov K.D., Ferrière L., Pittarello L., Christ O., Lorenzon S., Alvaro M., and Nestola F. Carletonmooreite (Ni3Si)in Shocked Diamond bearing Kenna Ureilite. 84th Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Chicago, USA.

Barbaro A., Nestola F., Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Murri M., Litasov K.D., Christ O., Alvaro M., and Domeneghetti M.C. Impact shock origin of carbon phases in Yamato 74123 ureilite. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPI Contrib. No. 2548).

2020

Barbaro A., Nestola F., Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Murri M., Christ O., Alvaro M., and Domeneghetti M.C. Graphite-based geothermometry of Yamato 74123 ureilitic meteorite. 11th Symposium on Polar Science, Tachikawa, Japan

Pittarello L., McKibbin S.J., and coauthors. Pallasites and mesosiderites: a petrologic approach. XVI Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, Padova, Italy

Barbaro A., Ferrière L., Pittarello L., Christ O., Goodrich C.A., Domeneghetti M.C., Alvaro M., and Nestola F. Yamato 74123 and Kenna ureilites: study of carbon phases. XVI Congresso Nazionale di Scienze Planetarie, Padova, Italy

2019

Pittarello L., Ferrière L., Feignon J.-G., Osinski G.R., Koeberl C. Study of the preferential orientation distribution of shock-induced planar microstructures in quartz and feldspar. Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI, Brasilia, Brazil

Pittarello L., Roszjar J., Daly L., Lenz C., Chanmuang N. Ch., Ferrière L., Fritz J., Chung P., Pickersgill A.E., Lee M.R., Koeberl C. The incomplete amorphization of natural and experimentally shocked plagioclase investigated by optical and electron microscopy, and various spectroscopic techniques. GeoMünster, Münster, Germany

Pittarello L., Daly L., Roszjar J., Fritz J., Ferrière L., Lenz C., Chanmuang N. C., Lee M.R., Koeberl C.  A common rock-forming mineral under shock: a study of plagioclase amorphization in nature and experiments. GSA Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Pittarello L., Daly L., Ferrière L., Chung P., Pickersgill A.E., Lee M.R.  Twinning and amorphization in naturally shocked plagioclase: an EBSD study. 82nd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Sapporo, Japan

Pittarello L., Fritz J., Roszjar J., Lenz C., Chanmuang N. C., Koeberl C. Comparison of different spectroscpic techniques in investigating shocked plagioclase. 82nd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society, Sapporo, Japan

Gajewsa K., Losiak A.I., Pittarello L., Koeberl C.  Meteoritic Nickel contamination of soils EGU, Vienna, Austria

Pittarello L., McKibbin S.J., Yamaguchi A. Gang J., Schryvers D., Debaille V, Claeys Ph. The tale of pyroxene in mesosiderite Asuka 09545 inferred from two generations of exsolution lamellae. 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, USA

Pittarello L., Goderis S., Soens B., McKibbin S.J., Bariselli F., Dias B., Helber B., Giuli G., Lepore G.O., Yamaguchi A., Roszjar J., Debaille V., Koeberl C., Magin T. , Claeys Ph. Fusion crust and atmospheric entry of ordinary chondrites, a comparison between experiments and nature. Italian National Congress of Planetary Sciences, Firenze, Italy

2018

Pittarello L., Goderis S., Soens B., McKibbin S.J., Bariselli F., Dias B., Helber B., Giuli G., Lepore G.O., Yamaguchi A., Roszjar J., Debaille V., Koeberl C., Magin T. , Claeys Ph. Fusion crust in ordinary chondrites: a study from nature to the experiments. Joint Hayabusa and Polar Science Symposia, Sagamihara, Japan

Pittarello L., Ferriere L., Osinski G. Constraining shock wave propagation direction from planar microstructures in quartz and feldspar. European Planetary Science Congress, Berlin, Germany

Pittarello L., Giuli G., Goderis S., Soens B., McKibbin S.J., Bariselli F., Dias B., Zavalan F.L., Lepore G.O., Koeberl C., Helber B., Magin T., Claeys Ph. Redox reactions in meteoroid atmospheric entry reproduced in plasma experiments. European Planetary Science Congress, Berlin, Germany

Pittarello L., Ferriere L., Osinski G. Preferred orientation of shock-induced microstructures in quartz and feldspar grains as marker for shock wave propagation direction. GeoBonn 2018, Bonn, Germany

Pittarello L. and Ntaflos Th. P zoning in olivine in type IIA chondrules: record of a complex magmatic history? GeoBonn 2018, Bonn, Germany

Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Dixon R.D., Pittarello L.,  Impact -generated pseudotachylites do not necessarily have the composition of the host. 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX, USA

Kovaleva E., Huber M., Habler G., Pittarello L., Tectonic vs impact zircon deformation: from the Vredefort impact structure to the Moon tectonics, a possible key to understand different geological processes. EGU, Vienna, Austria

2017

Giuli G., Lepore G., Pittarello L., Mc Kibbin S., Goderis S., Soens B., Bariselli F., Barros Dias B.R., Zavalan F.L., Magin T., Claeys Ph. Meteorite atmospheric entry reproduced in plasmatron II: iron oxidation state change probed by XANES. European Planetary Science Congress, Riga, Latvia

Pittarello L., Koeberl C. Shock-induced planar features in plagioclase: a project on measurements and investigations on their occurrence in relation with the An content. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Pittarello L., Habler G., Chanmuang C., Abart R. Silica crack pattern resembling ballen formed in a circulating fluidized bed boiler: is shock necessary to form ballen? 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Santa Fe, NM, USA

MIkouchi T., Yamaguchi A., Debaille V., McKibbin S., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Shirai N., Hublet G., Quitté G., Iizuka T., Greenwood R.C., Claeys Ph. Mineralogy of olivine xenocrysts in Asuka 12209 angrite. XLVIII LPSC, Houston, TX, USA.

2016

McKibbin S., Goderis S., Mikouchi T., Yamaguchi A., Pittarello L., Shirai N., Hublet G., Greenwood R., Debaille V., Claeys Ph. Xenocrystic olivine and spinel in the Asuka 12209 angrite. 7th Symposium on Polar Science, Tachikawa, Japan.

Mikouchi T., Yamaguchi A., Debaille V., McKibbin S., Goderis S., Pittarello L., Shirai N., Hublet G., Claeys Ph., Greenwood R.

Consortium study of the Asuka 12209 angrite. 7th Symposium on Polar Science, Tachikawa, Japan.

Pittarello L., McKibbin S., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. Evolution of olivine composition in the meteorite fusion crust. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany (oral).

Pittarello L., McKibbin S., Goderis S., Soens B., Bariselli F., Barros Dias B.R., Zavalan F.L., Magin T., and Claeys Ph. Meteorite atmospheric entry reproduced in Plasmatron. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Pittarello L., Ji G., Yamaguchi A., Schryvers D., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. Co-formation of ringwoodite, wadsleyite, and olivine in shock veins. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Soens B., Goderis S., McKibbin S., Pittarello L., Van Ginneken M., Debaille V., and Claeys Ph. Environmental control of Antarctic micrometeorite preservation state: the Widerøfjellet Mountain case study. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

McKibbin S., Avila J.N., Holden P., Ireland T.R., Friedrichs B., Pack A., Soens B., Pittarello L., Goderis S., and Claeys Ph. Oxygen isotopes in olivine from meteorites and micrometeorites: SIMS matrix effect correction for sensitive high-mass resolution ion microprobe. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany.

Kimura M., Yamaguchi A., Nagao K., Haba M.K., Claeys Ph., Debaille V., and Pittarello L. LL chondritic breccias and their significance to the evolution of LL parent bodies. 79th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Berlin, Germany.