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Naotaka Tomioka is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work encompasses a number of subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science. Key topics covered in their research include Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Naotaka Tomioka has contributed to a range of publications, with frequent appearances in venues such as Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Nature Astronomy, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences, and Nature Communications.

Their published papers include:

  • A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu's returned sample (2022, Nature Astronomy)
  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater (2020, Science Advances)
  • A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact (2020, Nature Communications)
  • A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu (2022, Nature Astronomy)
  • Early fluid activity on Ryugu inferred by isotopic analyses of carbonates and magnetite (2023, Nature Astronomy)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Masayuki Uesugi, Kentaro Uesugi, Masanao Abe, Masaaki Miyahara, and Aiko Nakato.

Best Publications

  • Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope.

    Don Brownlee;Peter Tsou;Jérôme Aléon;Conel M O'd Alexander

  • Mineralogy and petrology of comet 81P/wild 2 nucleus samples

    Michael E. Zolensky;Thomas J. Zega;Hajime Yano;Sue Wirick

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Natural (Mg,Fe)SiO3-ilmenite and -perovskite in the Tenham meteorite.

    Naotaka Tomioka;Kiyoshi Fujino

  • Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Christopher M. Lowery;Timothy J. Bralower;Jeremy D. Owens;Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

  • Comparing Wild 2 particles to chondrites and IDPs

    Michael Zolensky;Keiko Nakamura-Messenger;Frans Rietmeijer;Hugues Leroux

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • High‐pressure transformations in MgAl2O4

    Nobumasa Funamori;Raymond Jeanloz;Jeffrey H. Nguyen;Abby Kavner

  • High-pressure minerals in shocked meteorites

    Naotaka Tomioka;Masaaki Miyahara

  • A dehydrated space-weathered skin cloaking the hydrated interior of Ryugu

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  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater

    David A. Kring;Sonia M. Tikoo;Martin Schmieder;Ulrich Riller

  • Akimotoite, (Mg,Fe)SiO3, a new silicate mineral of the ilmenite group in the Tenham chondrite

    Naotaka Tomioka;Kiyoshi Fujino

  • IN SITU X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDY OF ENSTATITE UP TO 12 GPA AND 1473 K AND EQUATIONS OF STATE

    Toru Shinmei;Naotaka Tomioka;Kiyoshi Fujino;Koji Kuroda

  • A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact

    G S Collins;N Patel;T M Davison;A S P Rae;A S P Rae

  • Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures

    Ulrich Riller;Michael H Poelchau;Auriol S P Rae;Felix M Schulte

  • Tritium in Japanese precipitation following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.

    Takuya Matsumoto;Teruyuki Maruoka;Gen Shimoda;Hajime Obata

  • P‐V‐T relations of MgSiO3 perovskite determined by in situ X‐ray diffraction using a large‐volume high‐pressure apparatus

    Tomoo Katsura;Sho Yokoshi;Kazuaki Kawabe;Anton Shatskiy

  • Extraordinary rocks from the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater: P-wave velocity, density, and porosity measurements from IODP/ICDP Expedition 364

    G.L. Christeson;S.P.S. Gulick;J.V. Morgan;C. Gebhardt

  • Shock-induced transition of NaAlSi3O8 feldspar into a hollandite structure in a L6 chondrite

    Naotaka Tomioka;Hiroshi Mori;Kiyoshi Fujino

  • Thermal expansion of Mg2SiO4 ringwoodite at high pressures

    Tomoo Katsura;Sho Yokoshi;Maoshuang Song;Kazuyuki Kawabe

  • Millennial‐ to submillennial‐scale features of the Matuyama‐Brunhes geomagnetic polarity transition from Osaka Bay, southwestern Japan

    Masayuki Hyodo;Dipzli K. Biswas;Takako Noda;Naotaka Tomioka

  • Elasticity of Ferropericlase across the Spin Crossover in the Earth's Lower Mantle.

    Jing Yang;Xinyue Tong;Jung Fu Lin;Takuo Okuchi

  • Striped iron zoning of olivine induced by dislocation creep in deformed peridotites

    J. Ando;Y. Shibata;Y. Okajima;K. Kanagawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Yamaguchi
Akira Yamaguchi National Institute of Polar Research
Eiji Ohtani
Eiji Ohtani Tohoku University
Kentaro Uesugi
Kentaro Uesugi Stanford University
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
Kazuhisa Goto
Kazuhisa Goto University of Tokyo
Ulrich Riller
Ulrich Riller Universität Hamburg
David A. Kring
David A. Kring Lunar and Planetary Institute
Tomoo Katsura
Tomoo Katsura University of Bayreuth
Charles S. Cockell
Charles S. Cockell University of Edinburgh
Akira Miyake
Akira Miyake University of Colorado Boulder

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