Compositions of iron-meteorite parent bodies constrain the structure of the protoplanetary diskOPEN ACCESS
Bidong Zhang, Nancy L. Chabot, and Alan E. Rubin PNAS, Vol. 121, No. 2328 May 28, 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Magmatic iron-meteorite parent bodies are the earliest planetesimals in the Solar System, and…
Accretion of the earliest inner Solar System planetesimals beyond the water snowline
Damanveer S. Grewal, Nicole X. Nie, Bidong Zhang, Andre Izidoro & Paul D. Asimow Nature AstronomyPublished: 09 January 2024 LINK “How and where the first generation of inner Solar System planetesimals formed remains poorly understood….
Age, Genetics, and Crystallization Sequence of the Group IIIE Iron Meteorites
Emily M. Chiappe, Richard D. Ash, Richard J. Walker Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 14 June 2023 LINK “Chemical and isotopic data were obtained for ten iron meteorites classified as members…
A unique stone skipping–like trajectory of asteroid AletaiOPEN ACCESS
Ye Li, Bin Li, Weibiao Hsu, A. J. Timothy Jull, Shiyong Liao, Yuhui Zhao, Haibin Zhao, Yunhua Wu, Shaolin Li and Chipui Tang Science Advances24 Jun 2022Vol 8, Issue 25 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Origin of the non-carbonaceous–carbonaceous meteorite dichotomyOPEN ACCESS
Josefine A. M. Nanne, Francis Nimmo, Jeffrey N.Cuzzi, Thorsten Kleine Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 511, 1 April 2019, Pages 44-54 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • New Ni isotopic data for iron meteorites confirm…
Carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous iron meteorites: Differences in chemical, physical, and collective properties
Alan E. Rubin Meteorit Planet Sci. . doi:10.1111/maps.13128 LINK “Iron‐meteorite groups that appear from published isotopic data to have been derived from melted carbonaceous‐chondrite‐like precursors (CC irons) (IIC, IID, IIF, IIIF, IVB) tend to have…
All meteorites of the ALETAI strewn field officially registered as Iron, IIIE-an / ‘Armanty’ and ‘Xinjiang (b)’ abolished
The names ‘Armanty’ and ‘Xinjiang (b)’ have been abolished. LINK Writeup from MB 105: “Nomenclature of the Aletai (IIIE-an) iron meteorites from Xinjiang, China Chemical and petrographic analyses of multiple iron meteorite masses in the…
The ‘Aletai meteorite rain’ ( 阿勒泰隕石雨) – Longer Armanty strewnfield (Xinjiang, China)OPEN ACCESS
LINK (13 October, 2016) (The cover picture of this post shows the 18-ton meteorite 安拉之泪 found in 2011 which is not mentioned in “Aletai: The longest meteorite strewn field on Earth”.) View also: Aletai: The…
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)
Variations in impact effects among IIIE iron meteorites
Breen, J. P., Rubin, A. E. and Wasson, J. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12685 LINK “Group-IIIE iron meteorites can be ordered into four categories reflecting increasing degrees of shock alteration. Weakly shocked samples…
