Paris vs. Murchison: Impact of hydrothermal alteration on organic matter in CM chondrites
V. Vinogradoff, C. Le Guillou, S. Bernard, L. Binet, P. Cartigny, A.J. Brearley, L. Remusat Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 June 2017 LINK “Unravelling the origin of organic compounds…
Rare Earth Element abundances in presolar SiC
T.R. Ireland, J.N. Ávila, M. Lugaro, S. Cristallo, P. Holden, P. Lanc, L. Nittler, C.M.O’D. Alexander, F. Gyngard, S. Amari Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 May 2017 LINK “Individual…
Stellar origin of 15N-rich presolar SiC grains of type AB: supernovae with explosive hydrogen burningOPEN ACCESS
Nan Liu, Larry R. Nittler, Marco Pignatari, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Jianhua Wang The Astrophysical Journal Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report C, N, and Si isotopic data for 59 highly 13C-enriched presolar submicron- to…
A multielement isotopic study of refractory FUN and F CAIs: Mass-dependent and mass-independent isotope effects
Levke Kööp, Daisuke Nakashima, Philipp R. Heck, Noriko T. Kita, Travis J. Tenner, Alexander N. Krot, Kazuhide Nagashima, Changkun Park, Andrew M. Davis Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 April…
The origin of volatile element depletion in early solar system material: Clues from Zn isotopes in chondrulesOPEN ACCESS
Emily A. Pringle, Frédéric Moynier, Pierre Beck, Randal Paniello, Dominik C. Hezel Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 468, 15 June 2017, Pages 62-71 Open Access funded by European Research Council LINK (OPEN ACCESS) Update…
A new family of extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Toshiki Koga & Hiroshi Naraoka Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 636 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00693-9 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The occurrence of extraterrestrial organic compounds is a key for understanding prebiotic organic synthesis in the universe. In particular,…
One-pot synthesis of amino acid precursors with insoluble organic matter in planetesimals with aqueous activityOPEN ACCESS
By Yoko Kebukawa, Queenie H. S. Chan, Shogo Tachibana, Kensei Kobayashi, Michael E. Zolensky Science Advances 17 Mar 2017: Vol. 3, no. 3, e1602093 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602093 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The exogenous delivery…
Titanium isotopic compositions of rare presolar SiC grain types from the Murchison meteorite
Ann N. Nguyen, Larry R. Nittler, Conel M.O’D. Alexander, Peter Hoppe Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 February 2017 LINK “We report the Ti isotopic compositions of 8 mainstream, 22…
Fluid evolution in CM carbonaceous chondrites tracked through the oxygen isotopic compositions of carbonatesOPEN ACCESS
P. Lindgren, M.R. Lee, N.A. Starkey, I.A. Franchi Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 February 2017 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.048 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The oxygen isotopic compositions of calcite grains in four CM…
Effect of Tube-Based X-Ray Microtomography Imaging on the Amino Acid and Amine Content of the Murchison CM2 Chondrite
D. P. Glavin, J. M. Friedrich, J. C. Aponte, J. P. Dworkin, D. S. Ebel, J. E. Elsila, M. Hill, H. L. McLain, W. H. Towbin 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1070…
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…
Material composition assessment and discovering sublimation activity on asteroids 145 Adeona, 704 Interamnia, 779 Nina, and 1474 Beira
V. V. Busarev , S. I. Barabanov, V. B. Puzin Solar System Research July 2016, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp 281-293 First online: 23 July 2016 LINK “Spectrophotometric observations of 145 Adeona, 704 Interamnia, 779…
Characterization of asteroid analogues by means of emission and reflectance spectroscopy in the 1- to 100-µm spectral rangeOPEN ACCESS
Alessandro Maturilli, Jörn Helbert, Sabrina Ferrari, Björn Davidsson and Mario D’Amore Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:113 DOI: 10.1186/s40623-016-0489-y Published: 11 July 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) HTML (OPEN ACCESS) “The last decades have seen a…
Extended In-Situ Search of Amino Acids in the Murchison Meteorite
Henkel T. * Lyon I. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6437 LINK
Oxygen Isotopes in Chondrules from the Murchison CM2 Chondrite and Evidence for a CO-CM Link
Chaumard N. * Defouilloy C. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6408] LINK
Corundum-hibonite inclusions and the environments of high temperature processing in the early solar system
Andrew W. Needham, Scott Messenger, Jangmi Han, Lindsay P. Keller Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 May 2016 LINK “Corundum-bearing Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) are a rare class of high-temperature condensates…
Highly siderophile and chalcogen element constraints on the origin of components of the Allende and Murchison meteorites.
Kadlag, Y. and Becker, H. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12653 LINK “187Re-187Os systematics, abundances of highly siderophile elements (HSE: Re, PGE, and Au), chalcogen elements (Te, Se, and S), and some major and minor…
Aqueous alteration of chondrules from the Murchison CM carbonaceous chondrite: Replacement, pore filling, and the genesis of polyhedral serpentine.
Lee, M. R. and Lindgren, P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12644 LINK (open access) “Forsterite and clinoenstatite in type IAB chondrules from the Murchison CM carbonaceous chondrite have been partially serpentinized, and the mechanisms…
The Role of Ultrahigh Resolution Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry (FT-MS) in Astrobiology-Related Research: Analysis of Meteorites and TholinsOPEN ACCESS
Árpád Somogyi, Roland Thissen, Francois-Régis Orthous-Daunay, Véronique Vuitton Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2016, 17(4), 439; doi:10.3390/ijms17040439 PDF (open access) abstract “It is an important but also a challenging analytical problem to understand the chemical composition…
Hydrogen Isotopic Evolution of Water and Organic Compounds on Chondritic Asteroids
L. Piani, L. Remusat, F. Robert, H. Yurimoto 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1707 PDF
40Ar/39Ar Ages vs. Meteoroid Depth in Murchison (CM2): A Test of the Solar Heating Hypothesis
J. S. Delaney, B. Turrin, F. N. Lindsay, J. Park, G. F. Herzog, C. C. Swisher III 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1569 PDF
Nitrogen and Carbonaceous Isotopic Variations in Several Carbonaceous Chondrites — A Hunt for the Carrier Phases
M. Bose, T. J. Zega, K. Domanik 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1671 PDF
P-O-rich sulfide phase in CM chondrites: Constraints on its origin on the CM parent body.
Zhang, A.-C., Itoh, S., Yurimoto, H., Hsu, W.-B., Wang, R.-C. and Taylor, L. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12583 Article first published online: 20 DEC 2015 DOI: 10.1111/maps.12583 LINK “CM chondrites are a group…
The path of reduced nitrogen toward early earth: the cosmic trail and its solar shortcuts
Sandra Pizzarello and Maitrayee Bose The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 814, Number 2 LINK “Large isotopic anomalies are found in meteoritic insoluble organic materials (IOMs) and, for nitrogen, show 15N-excesses up to ${\delta }^{15}$N ~ 5000‰….
Effects of viewing geometry, aggregation state, and particle size on reflectance spectra of the Murchison CM2 chondrite deconvolved to Dawn FC band passes
Matthew R.M. Izawa, Tanja Schäfer, Valerie B. Pietrasz, Edward A. Cloutis, Paul Mann, Andreas Nathues, Kurt Mengel, Michael Schäfer, Guneshwar Thangjam, Martin Hoffmann, Kimberly T. Tait, Daniel M. Applin Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available…
Polymer amide in the Allende and Murchison meteorites
McGeoch, J. E. M. and McGeoch, M. W. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12558 LINK “It has been proposed that exothermic gas phase polymerization of amino acids can occur in the conditions of a warm…
Understanding the organo-carbonate associations in carbonaceous chondrites with the use of micro-Raman analysis
Q. H. S. Chan and M. E. Zolensky EPSC Abstracts Vol. 10, EPSC2015-257, 2015 European Planetary Science Congress 2015 PDF “Carbonates can potentially provide sites for organic materials to accrue and develop into complex macromolecules….
Widespread occurrence of (per)chlorate in the Solar System
W. Andrew Jackson, Alfonso F. Davila, Derek W.G. Sears, John D. Coates, Christopher P. McKay, Maeghan Brundrett, Nubia Estrada, J.K. Böhlke Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 430, 15 November 2015, Pages 470–476 LINK “Perchlorate…
Impact-induced brittle deformation, porosity loss, and aqueous alteration in the Murchison CM chondrite
Romy D. Hanna, Richard A. Ketcham, Mike Zolensky, Whitney Behr Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 September 2015 LINK “X-ray computed tomographic scanning of a 44 g Murchison stone (USNM…
Spectrophotometry of (32) Pomona, (145) Adeona, (704) Interamnia, (779) Nina, (330825) 2008 XE3, and 2012 QG42 and laboratory study of possible analog samples
Vladimir V. Busarev, Sergey I. Barabanov, Vyacheslav S. Rusakov, Vasiliy B. Puzin, Valery V. Kravtsov Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 August 2015 LINK
Toward an experimental synthesis of the chondritic insoluble organic matter
Biron, K., Derenne, S., Robert, F. and Rouzaud, J.-N. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12477 LINK
Hydrogen and carbon isotopic ratios of polycyclic aromatic compounds in two CM2 carbonaceous chondrites and implications for prebiotic organic synthesis
Yongsong Huang, José C. Aponte, Jiaju Zhao, Rafael Tarozo, Christian Hallmann Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 426, 15 September 2015, Pages 101–108 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.027 LINK
Intrinsic W nucleosynthetic isotope variations in carbonaceous chondrites: Implications for W nucleosynthesis and nebular vs. parent body processing of presolar materials
Christoph Burkhardt, Maria Schönbächler Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 June 2015 LINK
Effect of a Routine Synchrotron X-Ray Microtomography Scan on the Amino Acid Content of the Murchison CM Chondrite
Friedrich J. M. * Glavin D. P. Rivers M. L. Dworkin J. P. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5208 abstract (PDF)
The Presolar Grain Inventory of CM Chondrites
Leitner J. * Hoppe P. Metzler K. Haenecour P. Floss C. Vollmer C. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5178 abstract (PDF)
Non-Target Analysis of Murchison Soluble Organic Matter by High-Field NMR Spectroscopy and FTICR Mass Spectrometry
Hertkorn N, Harir M & Schmitt-Kopplin P Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, 16-21 August 2015 PDF (abstract)
Seeding the Pregenetic Earth: Meteoritic Abundances of Nucleobases and Potential Reaction Pathways
Ben K. D. Pearce, Ralph E. Pudritz accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (full text) LINK
Ion irradiation of the Murchison meteorite: Visible to mid-infrared spectroscopic results
C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M. A. Barucci, E. Dartois, J. Duprat, C. Engrand, M. Godard, D. Ledu and E. Quirico A&A Volume 577, May 2015 Published online: 29 April 2015 LINK
Comprehensive study of carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions, trace element abundances, and cathodoluminescence intensities of calcite in the Murchison CM chondrite
Wataru Fujiya, Naoji Sugiura, Yves Marrocchi, Naoto Takahata, Peter Hoppe, Kotaro Shirai, Yuji Sano, Hajime Hiyagon Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.010 in Press, available online 13 April 2015 LINK
Pulse-laser irradiation experiments of Murchison CM2 chondrite for reproducing space weathering on C-type asteroids
Moe Matsuoka, Tomoki Nakamura, Yuki Kimura, Takahiro Hiroi, Ryosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Okumura, Sho Sasaki Icarus available online 14 March 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.02.029 LINK
Nucleosynthetic strontium isotope anomalies in carbonaceous chondrites
Tetsuya Yokoyama, Yusuke Fukami, Wataru Okui, Nobuaki Ito, Hiroshi Yamazaki Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 416, 15 April 2015, Pages 46–55 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.040 LINK
Morphological Study of Insoluble Organic Matter from Carbonaceous Chondrites: Correlation with Petrologic Grade
Hitesh G. Changela, George D. Cody, Conel M.O’D. Alexander, Z Peeters, Larry R. Nittler, Rhonda M. Stroud Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta available online 16 February 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.02.007
A New Unequilibrated Chondrite Lithology Discovered in the Murchison CM2 Meteorite
G. K. Benedix, S. S. Russell, L. V. Forman, A. W. R. Bevan, P. A. Bland 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #1143 PDF LINK
Nanoscale infrared spectroscopy as a non-destructive probe of extraterrestrial samples
Dominguez G, Mcleod AS, Gainsforth Z, Kelly P, Bechtel HA, Keilmann F, Westphal A, Thiemens M, Basov DN (2014) Nature Communications 5, Article number: 5445 doi:10.1038/ncomms6445 published 09 December 2014 LINK
Reflectance spectra measurement of hydrated and dehydrated carbonaceous chondrites using the Near Infrared Spectrometer on Hayabusa 2 spacecraft
Tomoki Nakamura (Tohoku Univ), Takahiro Iwata (JAXA), Kohei Kitasato (Univ of Aizu), Masanao Abe (JAXA), Takahito Osawa (JAEA), Moe Matsuoka (Tohoku Univ), Yusuke Nakauchi (JAXA), Takehiko Arai (JAXA), Mutsumi Komatsu (Graduate Univ for Advanced Studies),…
Chloromethane release from carbonaceous meteorite affords new insight into Mars lander findings
Frank Keppler, David B. Harper, Markus Greule, Ulrich Ott, Tobias Sattler, Heinz F. Schöler, John T. G. Hamilton Scientific Reports 4, Article number:7010 doi:10.1038/srep07010 published 13 November 2014 LINK (open access) Supplementary information (PDF)
Sutter’s Mill dicarboxylic acids as possible tracers of parent-body alteration processes
Pizzarello S. and Garvie L.A.J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12264 LINK Dicarboxylic acids were searched for in three Sutter’s Mill (SM) fragments (SM2 collected prerain, SM12, and SM41) and found to occur almost exclusively…
Evolution of organic matter in Orgueil, Murchison and Renazzo during parent body aqueous alteration: in-situ investigations
Le Guillou C, Bernard S, Brearley AJ and Remusat L Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Volume 131, 15 April 2014, Pages 368–392 DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.11.020 LINK (abstract) In contrast to Renazzo, organic grains in Murchison and Orgueil…
The Murchison Meteorite Story
John Lovering describes his excitement at seeing the Murchison meteorite and its scientific significance. VIDEO (MP4) Transcript: This particular fragment is one of the pieces of the Murchison meteorite that fell in Victoria in 1969….
