Tellurium isotope fractionation during evaporation from silicate melts
C.J. Renggli, J.L. Hellmann, C. Burkhardt, S. Klemme, J. Berndt, P. Pangritz, T. Kleine Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 26 October 2022 LINK “Highlights • Tellurium volatility increases with oxygen fugacity.• Degassing of Te at…
Science Goals and Mission Concept for a Landed Investigation of MercuryOPEN ACCESS
Carolyn M. Ernst, Nancy L. Chabot, Rachel L. Klima, Sanae Kubota, Gabe Rogers, Paul K. Byrne, Steven A. Hauck II, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Ronald J. Vervack Jr., Sébastien Besse, David T. Blewett, Brett W….
Chemical Differentiation of Planets: A Core IssueOPEN ACCESS
Hervé Toulhoat, Viacheslav Zgonnik The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 924, Number 2Published: 14 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “By plotting empirical chemical element abundances on Earth relative to the Sun and normalized to silicon…
Erosion of volatiles by micro-meteoroid bombardment on Ceres, and comparison to the Moon and MercuryOPEN ACCESS
Petr Pokorný, Erwan Mazarico, Norbert Schorghofer accepted to PSJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “(1) Ceres, the largest reservoir of water in the main-belt, was recently visited by the Dawn spacecraft that revealed several areas bearing H2O-ice…
Meteoroids as One of the Sources for Exosphere Formation on Airless Bodies in the Inner Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Diego Janches, Alexey A. Berezhnoy, Apostolos A. Christou, Gabriele Cremonese, Takayuki Hirai, Mihály Horányi, Jamie M. Jasinski & Menelaos Sarantos Space Science Reviews, Volume 217, Article number: 50 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This…
Mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of synthetic glass analogs for mercury surface studies
Andreas Morlok, Christian Renggli, Bernard Charlier, Maximilian P. Reitze, Stephan Klemme, Olivier Namur, Martin Sohn, Dayl Martin, Iris Weber, Leksandra N.Stojic, Harald Hiesinger, Katherine H.Joy, Roy Wogelius, Peter Tollan, Cristian Carli, Karin E. Bauch, Joern…
Rocklines as Cradles for Refractory Solids in the Protosolar Nebula
Artyom Aguichine, Olivier Mousis, Bertrand Devouard, Thomas Ronnet The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 901, Number 2Published 2020 September 25 LINK “In our solar system, terrestrial planets and meteoritical matter exhibit various bulk compositions. To understand this…
Geochemical constraints on core-mantle differentiation in Mercury and the aubrite parent body
E.S. Steenstra, W. van Westrenen Icarus In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 January 2020 LINK “Highlights • Geochemical models constraining the interior compositions of Mercury and the AuPB • The cores of Mercury and…
Revolutionizing Our Understanding of the Solar System via Sample Return from Mercury
Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Francis M. McCubbin, Paul K. Byrne, Nancy L. Chabot, Carolyn M. Ernst, Catherine L. Johnson, Michelle S. Thompson Space Science Reviews November 2019, 215:49 LINK “Data from Mariner 10, MESSENGER, and…
Mid-infrared spectroscopy of laser-produced basalt melts for remote sensing application
Andreas Morlok, Christopher Hamann, Dayl Martin, Iris Weber, Katherine H.Joy, Harald Hiesinger, Roy Wogelius, Aleksandra Stojic, Joern Helbert Icarus Available online 7 August 2019 LINK “Highlights • Mid-Infrared spectroscopy of laser generated basaltic melts •…
Metal-silicate partitioning systematics of siderophile elements at reducing conditions: A new experimental database
E.S. Steenstra, A.X. Seegers, R. Putter, J. Berndt, S. Klemme, S. Matveev, E. Bullock, W. van Westrenen Icarus LINK “Highlights • The activity coefficient of FeO decreases with decreasing oxygen fugacity. • Silicon in metal…
The ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325: Spectral reflectance properties and implications for parent body identification
Edward A. Cloutis, Vishnu Reddy, David T. Blewett Icarus In Press, Available online 24 April 2018 LINK “Highlights • the ungrouped achondrite NWA 7325 has been spectrally characterized • NWA 7325 reflectance spectra show diagnostic…
40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He model age signatures of elusive Mercurian and Venusian meteorites.
Jourdan, F. and Eroglu, E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12838 LINK “No meteorites from Mercury and Venus have been conclusively identified so far. In this study, we develop an original approach based on extensive…
Mid-Infrared Bi-directional Reflectance Spectroscopy of Impact Melt Glasses and Tektites
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Iris Weber, Harald Hiesinger, Michael Zanetti, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 June 2016 LINK “We have analyzed 14 impact melt glass samples, covering the compositional range…
Expected Geochemical and Mineralogical Properties of Meteorites from Mercury:Inferences from MESSENGER Data
McCubbin F. M. * McCoy T. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6242] LINK
Sulfur solubility in reduced mafic silicate melts: Implications for the speciation and distribution of sulfur on Mercury
Olivier Namur, Bernard Charlier, Francois Holtz, Camille Cartier, Catherine McCammon Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 448, 15 August 2016, Pages 102–114 LINK “Chemical data from the MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that surface rocks on Mercury…
Cosmochemical and spectroscopic properties of Northwest Africa 7325—A consortium study
Weber, I., Morlok, A., Bischoff, A., Hiesinger, H., Ward, D., Joy, K. H., Crowther, S. A., Jastrzebski, N. D., Gilmour, J. D., Clay, P. L., Wogelius, R. A., Greenwood, R. C., Franchi, I. A. and…
Darkening of Mercury’s surface by cometary carbon
Megan Bruck Syal, Peter H. Schultz, Miriam A. Riner Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2397 published online 30 March 2015 LINK
