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…