Mesosiderite formation on asteroid 4 Vesta by a hit-and-run collision

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Makiko K. Haba, Jörn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Yi-Jen Lai, Akira Yamaguchi & Maria Schönbächler Nature Geoscience, 1–6 LINK “Collision and disruption processes of protoplanetary bodies in the early Solar System are key to understanding the genesis of…

Meteorite cloudy zone formation as a quantitative indicator of paleomagnetic field intensities and cooling rates on planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS 

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Clara Maurel, Benjamin P. Weiss, James F. J. Bryson PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Metallic microstructures in slowly-cooled iron-rich meteorites reflect the thermal and magnetic histories of their parent planetesimals. Of particular interest is the cloudy zone,…

(16) Psyche: A mesosiderite-like asteroid?OPEN ACCESS 

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M. Viikinkoski, P. Vernazza, J. Hanus, H. Le Coroller, K. Tazhenova, B. Carry, M. Marsset, A. Drouard, F. Marchis, R. Fetick, T. Fusco, J. Durech, M. Birlan, J. Berthier, P. Bartczak, C. Dumas, J. Castillo-Rogez,…

Trace element composition and U-Pb age of zircons from Estherville: Constraints on the timing of the metal-silicate mixing event on the mesosiderite parent body

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Makiko K. Haba, Akira Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki Kagi, Keisuke Nagao, Hiroshi Hidaka Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 July 2017 LINK “Mesosiderites are a group of stony-iron meteorites, which are thought…

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