The Saric ßic ßek howardite meteorite shower consisting of 343 documented stones occurred on September 2, 2015 in Turkey and is the first documented howardite fall. Cosmogenic isotopes show that Saric ßic ßek experienced a complex cosmic-ray exposure history, exposed during~12-14 Ma in a regolith near the surface of a parent asteroid, and that añ 1 m sized meteoroid was launched by an impact 22 AE 2 Ma ago to Earth (as did one-third of all HED meteorites). SIMS dating of zircon and baddeleyite yielded 4550.4 AE 2.5 Ma and 4553 AE 8.8 Ma crystallization ages for the basaltic magma clasts. The apatite U-Pb age of 4525 AE 17 Ma, K-Ar age of~3.9 Ga, and the U,Th-He ages of 1.8 AE 0.7 and 2.6 AE 0.3 Ga are interpreted to represent thermal metamorphic and impact-related resetting ages, respectively. Petrographic; geochemical; and O-, Cr-, and Ti-isotopic studies confirm that Saric ßic ßek belongs to the normal clan of HED meteorites. Petrographic observations and analysis of organic material indicate a small portion of carbonaceous chondrite material in the Saric ßic ßek regolith and organic contamination of the meteorite after a few days on soil. Video observations of the fall show an atmospheric entry at 17.3 AE 0.8 km s À1 from NW; fragmentations at 37, 33, 31, and 27 km altitude; and provide a pre-atmospheric orbit that is the first dynamical link between the normal HED meteorite clan and the inner Main Belt. Spectral data indicate the similarity of Saric ßic ßek with the Vesta asteroid family (V-class) spectra, a group of asteroids stretching to delivery resonances, which includes (4) Vesta. Dynamical modeling of meteoroid delivery to Earth shows that the complete disruption of ã 1 km sized Vesta family asteroid or a~10 km sized impact crater on Vesta is required to provide sufficient meteoroids ≤4 m in size to account for the influx of meteorites from this HED clan. The 16.7 km diameter Antionia impact crater on Vesta was formed on terrain of the same age as given by the 4 He retention age of Saric ßic ßek. Lunar scaling for crater production to crater counts of its ejecta blanket show it was formed~22 Ma ago.A field expedition to the area was conducted by the

An experimental study of the use of an S-transform to evaluate the phase distribution from a two-dimensional fringe pattern by introducing the carrier frequencies in two spatial directions, x and y, is presented. The phase distribution is extracted from the optical fringe pattern by using an S-transform gradient and S-transform phase methods. The experimental result for the Fourier transform profilometry algorithm is compared with the results of the S-transform analysis.

The selection of wavelet is an important step in order to determine the phase from the fringe patterns. In the present work, a new wavelet for phase retrieval from the ridge of continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is presented. The phase distributions have been extracted from the optical fringe pattern by choosing the zero order generalized morse wavelet (GMW) as a mother wavelet. The aim of the study is to reveal the ways in which the two varying parameters of GMW affect the phase calculation. To show the validity of this method, an experimental study has been conducted by using the diffraction phase microscopy (DPM) setup; consequently, the profiles of red blood cells have been retrieved. The results for the CWT ridge technique with GMW have been compared with the results for the Morlet wavelet and the Paul wavelet; the results are almost identical for Paul and zero order GMW because of their degree of freedom. Also, for further discussion, the Fourier transform and the Stockwell transform have been applied comparatively. The outcome of the comparison reveals that GMWs are highly applicable to the research in various areas, predominantly biomedicine.

The generalized Morse wavelet (GMW) was improved as an alternative tool to determine the birefringence dispersion of a liquid crystal (LC) material by using the transmittance spectrum. The GMW has two degrees of freedom and the advantage of this additional degree of freedom was clearly exhibited in the simulation study. The validity of the presented method was shown by using the transmittance spectrum of the ZLI-6000 coded nematic LC and the acquired results were compared with the results of other methods. The noise immunity and uncertainty of the presented method were also studied.

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