Evidence for impact induced pressure gradients on the Allende CV3 parent body: Consequences for fluid and volatile transportOPEN ACCESS
Alastair W. Tait, Kent R. Fisher, Poorna Srinivasan, Justin I. Simon Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 September 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Carbonaceous chondrites, such as…
Chondrules: The Canonical and Non-canonical View
Connolly, H. C., Jr., and R. H. Jones Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Review article Accepted manuscript online: 30 September 2016 DOI: 10.1002/2016JE005113 First published: 25 October 2016 LINK “Millimeter-scale rock particles called chondrules are…
Modeling Orbital Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Experiments at Carbonaceous AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Lucy F. Lim, Richard D. Starr, Larry G. Evans, Ann M. Parsons, Michael E. Zolensky, William V. Boynton Accepted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science, September 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “To evaluate the feasibility of…
Search for primitive matter in the Solar System
Guy Libourel, Patrick Michel, Marco Delbo, Clément Ganino, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Patrick de Laverny, Michael E. Zolensky, Alexander N. Krot Icarus Volume 282, 15 January 2017, Pages 375-379 LINK “In this note, we show that neither…
Young asteroidal fluid activity revealed by absolute age from apatite in carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Ai-Cheng Zhang, Qiu-Li Li, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Naoya Sakamoto, Xian-Hua Li, Sen Hu, Yang-Ting Lin, Ru-Cheng Wang Nature Communications 7, Article number:12844 doi:10.1038/ncomms12844 Published 29 September 2016 PDF (open access) LINK (open access) “Chondritic meteorites, consisting…
Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Inclusions Recycled During Formation of Porphyritic Chondrules from CH Carbonaceous Chondrites
Alexander N. Krot, Kazuhide Nagashima, Elishevah M.M. van Kooten, Martin Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2016 LINK “We report on the mineralogy, petrography, and O-isotope compositions of…
53Mn-53Cr Radiometric Dating of Secondary Carbonates in CR Chondrites: Timescales for Parent Body Aqueous AlterationOPEN ACCESS
Christine E. Jilly-Rehak, Gary R. Huss, Kazuhide Nagashima Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 September 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present 53Mn-53Cr ages of secondary carbonates in Renazzo-like (CR)…
Hiding in the howardites: Unequilibrated eucrite clasts as a guide to the formation of Vesta’s crust.
Mayne, R. G., Smith, S. E. and Corrigan, C. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12730 LINK “204 howardites in the National Meteorite Collection at the Smithsonian were examined for the presence of fine-grained eucrite…
Early 18th century cosmic ray flux inferred from 44Ti in Agen meteorite
Taricco, C., Sinha, N., Bhandari, N. et al. Astrophys Space Sci (2016) 361: 338. doi:10.1007/s10509-016-2909-7 First Online: 26 September 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s10509-016-2909-7 LINK “We report the measurement of radioactivity of cosmogenic 44Ti in Agen meteorite,…
The 57Fe hyperfine interactions in the iron-bearing phases in some LL ordinary chondrites
Oshtrakh, M.I., Maksimova, A.A., Grokhovsky, V.I. et al. Hyperfine Interact (2016) 237: 138. doi:10.1007/s10751-016-1343-0 Proceedings of the International Conference on Hyperfine Interactions and their Applications (HYPERFINE 2016), Leuven, Belgium, 3-8 July 2016 LINK “The study…
Mössbauer spectroscopy of H, L and LL ordinary chondrites
Maksimova, A.A., Oshtrakh, M.I., Petrova, E.V. et al. Hyperfine Interact (2016) 237: 134. doi:10.1007/s10751-016-1344-z This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the 2nd Mediterranean Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer…
Thermal and irradiation history of lunar meteorite Dhofar 280.
Korochantseva, E. V., Buikin, A. I., Hopp, J., Lorenz, C. A., Korochantsev, A. V., Ott, U. and Trieloff, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12732 First published: 26 September 2016 LINK “Dhofar 280 recorded a…
Spectral characterization of V-type asteroids outside the Vesta family
Alessandra Migliorini, M.C. De Sanctis, D. Lazzaro, and E. Ammannito MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2441 first published online September 26, 2016 LINK “We present new NIR reflectance spectra of 10 V-type candidate asteroids obtained at the 3.6 m…
Characterization of Carbonaceous Matter in Xenolithic Clasts from the Sharps (H3.4) Meteorite: Constraints on the Origin and Thermal Processing
Yoko Kebukawa, Michael E. Zolensky, Queenie H.S. Chan, Keisuke Nagao, A.L. David Kilcoyne, Robert J. Bodnar, Charles Farley, Zia Rahman, Loan Le, George D. Cody Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online…
Geologic history of martian regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034: Evidence for hydrothermal activity and lithologic diversity in the martian crust
McCubbin, Francis M., Boyce, Jeremy W., Novák-Szabó, Tímea, Santos, Alison R., Tartèse, Romain, Muttik, Nele, Domokos, Gabor, Vazquez, Jorge, Keller, Lindsay P., Moser, Desmond E., Jerolmack, Douglas J., Shearer, Charles K., Steele, Andrew, Elardo, Stephen…
Global variations in regolith properties on asteroid Vesta from Dawn’s low-altitude mapping orbit.
Denevi, B. W., Beck, A. W., Coman, E. I., Thomson, B. J., Ammannito, E., Blewett, D. T., Sunshine, J. M., De Sanctis, M. C., Li, J.-Y., Marchi, S., Mittlefehldt, D. W., Petro, N. E., Raymond,…
Magmatic sulfides in the porphyritic chondrules of EH enstatite chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Laurette Piani, Yves Marrocchi, Guy Libourel, Laurent Tissandier PDF (open access) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 September 2016 LINK “The nature and distribution of sulfides within 17 porphyritic chondrules…
(U-Th)/He Ages of Phosphates from Zagami and ALHA77005 Martian Meteorites: Implications to Shock Temperatures
Kyoungwon Min, Annette Farah, Seung Ryeol Lee, Jong Ik Lee Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 September 2016 LINK “Shock conditions of martian meteorites provide crucial information about ejection dynamics…
The Asteroid Belt as a Relic From a Chaotic Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Andre Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Arnaud Pierens, Alessandro Morbidelli, Othon C. Winter, David Nesvorny Accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “The orbital structure of the asteroid belt holds a record of the…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…
Primitive Solar System materials and Earth share a common initial 142Nd abundance
A. Bouvier & M. Boyet Nature 537, 399–402 (15 September 2016) doi:10.1038/nature19351 LINK “The early evolution of planetesimals and planets can be constrained using variations in the abundance of neodymium-142 (142Nd), which arise from the…
A nucleosynthetic origin for the Earth’s anomalous 142Nd composition
C. Burkhardt, L. E. Borg, G. A. Brennecka, Q. R. Shollenberger, N. Dauphas, T. Kleine Nature 537, 394–398 (14 September 2016) | doi:10.1038/nature18956 LINK “A long-standing paradigm assumes that the chemical and isotopic compositions of…
Aletai: The longest meteorite strewn field on EarthOPEN ACCESS
WANG KeChao, HSU WeiBiao Chinese Science Bulletin 61(25), 2834-2842(2016) Volume 61, Issue 25, 2016 10.1360/N972016-00536 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS)
Water in the Martian interior—The geodynamical perspective.
Breuer, D., Plesa, A.-C., Tosi, N. and Grott, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12727 LINK “Petrological analysis of the Martian meteorites suggests that rheologically significant amounts of water are present in the Martian mantle….
Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon
Kun Wang, Stein B. Jacobsen Nature doi:10.1038/nature19341 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “The Earth–Moon system has unique chemical and isotopic signatures compared with other planetary bodies1, 2, 3; any successful model for the origin…
Core merging and stratification following giant impact
Maylis Landeau, Peter Olson, Renaud Deguen & Benjamin H. Hirsh Nature Geoscience(2016) doi:10.1038/ngeo2808 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “A stratified layer below the core–mantle boundary has long been suspected on the basis of geomagnetic…
Photo and thermochemical evolution of astrophysical ice analogs as a source for soluble and insoluble organic materials in Solar System minor bodies
Pierre de Marcellus, Aurelien Fresneau, Rosario Brunetto, Gregoire Danger, Fabrice Duvernay, Cornelia Meinert, Uwe J. Meierhenrich, Ferenc Borondics, Thierry Chiavassa, and Louis Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2292 First published online September 12, 2016 LINK “Soluble…
Altitudinal dependence of meteor radio afterglows measured via optical counterparts
K. S. Obenberger, J. M. Holmes, J. D. Dowell, F. K. Schinzel, K. Stovall, E. K. Sutton, G. B. Taylor Geophysical Research Letters 43 DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070059 LINK “Key Points We have measured the positions of…
Space Weathering on Airless BodiesOPEN ACCESS
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Review Accepted manuscript online: 9 September 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Space weathering refers to alteration that occurs in the space environment with time. Lunar samples, and to some extent…
The Motion of Chondrules and Other Particles in a Protoplanetary Disk with Temperature FluctuationsOPEN ACCESS
Christoph Loesche, Gerhard Wurm, Thorben Kelling, Jens Teiser, Denton S. Ebel PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “We consider the mechanism of photophoretic transport in protoplanetary disks that are optically thick to radiation. Here, photophoresis is not…
High-molecular-weight organic matter in the particles of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Nicolas Fray, Anaïs Bardyn, Hervé Cottin, Kathrin Altwegg, Donia Baklouti, Christelle Briois, Luigi Colangeli, Cécile Engrand, Henning Fischer, Albrecht Glasmachers, Eberhard Grün, Gerhard Haerendel, Hartmut Henkel, Herwig Höfner, Klaus Hornung, Elmar K. Jessberger, Andreas Koch,…
Hydrogen isotopic composition of the Martian mantle inferred from the newest Martian meteorite fall, Tissint.
Mane, P., Hervig, R., Wadhwa, M., Garvie, L. A. J., Balta, J. B. and McSween, H. Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12717 LINK “The hydrogen isotopic composition of planetary reservoirs can provide key constraints…
Heterogeneous histories of Ni-bearing pyrrhotite and pentlandite grains in the CI chondrites Orgueil and Alais.
Berger, E. L., Lauretta, D. S., Zega, T. J. and Keller, L. P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12721 LINK “Compositional and structural analyses of CI chondrite iron–nickel sulfide grains reveal heterogeneity both across and…
Hyperspectral mapping of alteration assemblages within a hydrothermal vug at the Haughton impact structure, Canada.
Greenberger, R. N., Mustard, J. F., Osinski, G. R., Tornabene, L. L., Pontefract, A. J., Marion, C. L., Flemming, R. L., Wilson, J. H. and Cloutis, E. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12716 LINK
Carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by accretion of differentiated planetary embryos
Yuan Li, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Kyusei Tsuno, Brian Monteleone & Nobumichi Shimizu Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/ngeo2801 Published online 05 September 2016 LINK “The abundances of volatile elements in the Earth’s mantle have been attributed to the delivery…
A long duration of the 16O-rich reservoir in the solar nebula, as recorded in fine-grained refractory inclusions from the least metamorphosed carbonaceous chondrites
Takayuki Ushikubo, Travis J. Tenner, Hajime Hiyagon, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 September 2016 LINK “Oxygen isotope ratios and corresponding 26Al-26Mg isotope systematics of refractory inclusions…
Partial melting of a C-rich asteroid: Lithophile trace elements in ureilites
Jean-Alix Barrat, Albert Jambon, Akira Yamaguchi, Addi Bischoff, Marie-Laure Rouget, Céline Liorzou Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 September 2016 LINK “Ureilites are among the most common achondrites and are…
Meteorite fall between BANMA (班玛) and Mǎn Zhǎng Xiāng (满掌乡), in Banma County (班玛县), Golog prefecture, Qinghai province, China at ~ 9 pm local time (UTC+8) on August 24, 2016 (UPDT: 10 Nov 2016)
Last update on November 10, 2016 A meteorite (32 x 23 x 18 cm), ordinary chondrite (L5,S2,W0), weighing 10.05 kg fell about 5 km southeast of Mǎn Zhǎng Xiāng (满掌乡) at location 33°15’11″N, 100°27’54″E in…
Detection of local H2O exposed at the surface of Ceres
By Jean-Philippe Combe, Thomas B. McCord, Federico Tosi, Eleonora Ammannito, Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Andrea Raponi, Shane Byrne, Margaret E. Landis, Kynan H. G. Hughson, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell Science…
Distribution of phyllosilicates on the surface of Ceres
E. Ammannito, M. C. DeSanctis, M. Ciarniello, A. Frigeri, F. G. Carrozzo, J.-Ph. Combe, B. L. Ehlmann, S. Marchi, H. Y. McSween, A. Raponi, M. J. Toplis, F. Tosi, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, F. Capaccioni, M….
Cratering on Ceres: Implications for its crust and evolution
By H. Hiesinger, S. Marchi, N. Schmedemann, P. Schenk, J. H. Pasckert, A. Neesemann, D. P. O’Brien, T. Kneissl, A. I. Ermakov, R. R. Fu, M. T. Bland, A. Nathues, T. Platz, D. A. Williams,…
Multi-scale three-dimensional characterization of iron particles in dusty olivine: Implications for paleomagnetism of chondritic meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Joshua F.Einsle, Richard J. Harrison, Takeshi Kasama, Pádraig Ó Conbhuí, Karl Fabian, Wyn Williams, Leonie Woodland, Roger R. Fu, Benjamin P. Weiss, Paul A. Midgley American Mineralogist, v. 101, i. 9, p. 2070-2084, First Published…
Why is it so difficult to classify Renazzo-type (CR) Carbonaceous Chondrites? – Implications from TEM observations of matrices for the sequences of aqueous alteration
Neyda M. Abreu Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 September 2016 LINK “A number of different classification schemes have been proposed for the CR chondrites; this study aims at reconciling…
Magnetite plaquettes are naturally asymmetric materials in meteorites
Queenie H.S.Chan, Michael E.Zolensky, James E.Martinez, AkiraTsuchiyama, AkiraMiyake American Mineralogist, v. 101, i. 9, p. 2041-2050, First Published on September 01, 2016, doi:10.2138/am-2016-5604 LINK “Life on Earth shows preference toward the set of organics with…