Simulated Space Weathering of Fe- and Mg-rich Aqueously Altered Minerals Using Pulsed Laser IrradiationOPEN ACCESS
H.M. Kaluna, H.A. Ishii, J.P. Bradley, J.J. Gillis-Davis, P.G. Lucey Update (2 Jan 17): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • We simulate space weathering on…
Tungsten stable isotope compositions of terrestrial samples and meteorites determined by double spike MC-ICPMS
Nadine Krabbe, Thomas S. Kruijer, Thorsten Kleine Chemical Geology In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 December 2016 LINK “Tungsten stable isotopes hold great potential to examine a variety of physical and chemical processes operating…
Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main beltOPEN ACCESS
Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Brian A. Skiff, Nick Moskovitz, Paweł Kankiewicz, Anna Marciniak, Javier Licandro, Mattia Galiazzo, Werner Zeilinger Astronomy & Astrophysics December 16, 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Most Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogs to V-type asteroids)…
Nanoindenting the Chelyabinsk meteorite to learn about impact deflection effects in asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Carles E. Moyano-Cambero, Eva Pellicer, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Iwan P. Williams, Jürgen Blum, Patrick Michel, Michael Küppers, Marina Martínez-Jiménez, Ivan Lloro, Jordi Sort Astrophysical Journal (2017) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract Update (24 January 2017): LINK…
Thermal evolution of planetesimals during accretion
Y. Ricard, D. Bercovici, F. Albarède Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • joint mass-temperature distributions in a planetesimal swarm • molten planetary embryos are formed in only a…
Formation of Apollo 16 impactites and the composition of late accreted material: constraints from Os isotopes, highly siderophile elements and sulfur abundances
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 December 2016 LINK “Fe-Ni metal-schreibersite-troilite intergrowths in Apollo 16 impact melt rocks and new highly siderophile element (HSE) and S…
Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites: a new view of space weathering on primitive asteroids
C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M.A. Barucci, S. Fornasier, D. Baklouti, J. Bourçois, M. Godard Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • New ion irradiations on several carbonaceous chondrites to…
Extensive water ice within Ceres’ aqueously altered regolith: Evidence from nuclear spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
by T. H. Prettyman, N. Yamashita, M. J. Toplis, H. Y. McSween, N. Schorghofer, S. Marchi, W. C. Feldman, J. Castillo-Rogez, O. Forni, D. J. Lawrence, E. Ammannito, B. L. Ehlmann, H. G. Sizemore, S….
Timing of the formation and migration of giant planets as constrained by CB chondritesOPEN ACCESS
By Brandon C. Johnson, Kevin J. Walsh, David A. Minton, Alexander N. Krot, Harold F. Levison Science Advances 09 Dec 2016: Vol. 2, no. 12, e1601658 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601658 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The…
Diversity of the initial rocky planetary building materials at the edge of the solar system
Brownlee, D. E. and Joswiak, D. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12804 First published: 9 December 2016 LINK “Asteroids and comets are surviving members of the vast planetesimal population that was distributed across the…
The accretion and impact history of the ordinary chondrite parent bodies
Terrence Blackburn, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Richard Carlson, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 December 2016 LINK “A working timeline for the history of ordinary chondrites includes…
Further evidence for early lunar magnetism from troctolite 76535
Garrick-Bethell, I., B. P. Weiss, D. L. Shuster, S. M. Tikoo, and M. M. Tremblay J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 120, doi: 10.1002/2016JE005154 Accepted manuscript online: 7 December 2016 LINK “The earliest history of the lunar…
Physical Characterization of ~2-meter Diameter Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 TC25: A possible boulder from E-type Asteroid (44) NysaOPEN ACCESS
Vishnu Reddy, Juan A. Sanchez, William F. Bottke, Audrey Thirouin, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin, Michael S. Kelley, William Ryan, Edward A. Cloutis, Stephen C. Tegler, Eileen V. Ryan, Patrick A. Taylor, James E. Richardson, Nicholas Moskovitz,…
Distribution of p-process 174Hf in early solar system materials and the origin of nucleosynthetic Hf and W isotope anomalies in Ca–Al rich inclusions
Stefan T.M. Peters, Carsten Münker, Markus Pfeifer, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Peter Sprung Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Chondrites, eucrites and Earth carry uniform p-process…
Chemical layering in the upper mantle of Mars: Evidence from olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Tissint.
Basu Sarbadhikari, A., Babu, E. V. S. S. K. and Vijaya Kumar, T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12790 LINK “Melting of Martian mantle, formation, and evolution of primary magma from the depleted mantle were…
Mid-infrared spectra of comet nucleiOPEN ACCESS
Michael S.P. Kelley, Charles E. Woodward, Robert D. Gehrz, William T. Reach, David E. Harker Icarus (in Press) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Highlights • We observed two comet nuclei with the Spitzer Space Telescope. •…
Water in type I chondrules of Paris CM chondrite
A. Stephant, L. Remusat, F. Robert Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 November 2016 LINK “Hydrogen isotopic ratio and water concentration have been measured with the NanoSIMS in olivine, pyroxene…
Mn-Cr ages and formation conditions of fayalite in CV3 carbonaceous chondrites: Constraints on the accretion ages of chondritic asteroids
Kaori Jogo, Tomoki Nakamura, Motoo Ito, Shigeru Wakita, Mikhail Yu. Zolotov, Scott R. Messenger Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 November 2016 LINK “Chondritic planetesimals are among the first planetary…
Asteroid Fragmentation Approaches for Modeling Atmospheric Energy Deposition
Paul J. Register, Donovan L. Mathias, Lorien F. Wheeler Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Fragmentation modeling approaches are compared using Chelyabinsk meteor data. • A new model…
Chronologic Implications for Slow Cooling of Troctolite 76535 and Temporal Relationships between the Mg-suite and the Ferroan Anorthosite Suite
Lars E. Borg, James N. Connelly, William Cassata, Amy M. Gaffney, Martin Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 November 2016 LINK “Ages have been obtained using the 87Rb-87Sr, 147Sm-143Nd,…
Melting and differentiation of early-formed asteroids: The perspective from high precision oxygen isotope studiesOPEN ACCESS
Richard C. Greenwood, Thomas H. Burbine, Martin F. Miller, Ian. A. Franchi Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry Review article In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 November 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “A number of distinct…
Rocky Planetesimal Formation via Fluffy Aggregates of NanograinsOPEN ACCESS
Sota Arakawa, Taishi Nakamoto Updated (18 Nov. 2016): The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 832, Number 2 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Several pieces of evidence suggest that silicate grains in primitive meteorites are not interstellar grains…
Thermal and chemical evolution in the early Solar System as recorded by FUN CAIs: Part I – Petrology, mineral chemistry, and isotopic composition of Allende FUN CAI CMS-1
C.D. Williams, T. Ushikubo, E.S. Bullock, P.E. Janney, R.R. Hines, N.T. Kita, R.L. Hervig, G.J. MacPherson, R.A. Mendybaev, F.M. Richter, M. Wadhwa Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 November 2016…
Extreme early solar system chemical fractionation recorded by alkali-rich clasts contained in ordinary chondrite breccias
Tatsunori Yokoyama, Keiji Misawa, Osamu Okano, Chi-Yu Shih, Laurence E. Nyquist, Justin I. Simon, Michael J. Tappa, Shigekazu Yoneda Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 November 2016 LINK “Highlights…
Amazonian chemical weathering rate derived from stony meteorite finds at Meridiani Planum on MarsOPEN ACCESS
Christian Schröder, Phil A. Bland, Matthew P. Golombek, James W. Ashley, Nicholas H. Warner & John A. Grant Nature Communications 7 Article number: 13459 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13459 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Little is known…
Evidence for geologic processes on cometsOPEN ACCESS
Jessica M. Sunshine, Nicolas Thomas, Mohamed R. El‐Maarry, Tony L. Farnham Journal of Geophysical Research Review article DOI: 10.1002/2016JE005119 First published: 7 November 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Spacecraft missions have resolved the…
Modeling orbital gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments at carbonaceous asteroids
Lucy F. Lim, Richard D. Starr, Larry G. Evans, Ann M. Parsons, Michael E. Zolensky and William V. Boynton Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12786 Version of Record online: 6 NOV 2016 LINK “To evaluate…
Hungaria Asteroid Region Telescopic Spectral Survey (HARTSS) I: Stony Asteroids Abundant in the Hungaria Background Population
Michael P. Lucas, Joshua P. Emery, Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, Sean S. Lindsay, Vania Lorenzi Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • HARTSS describes taxonomy, mineralogy, and meteorite analogs of Hungaria…
FC Colour Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres Reveal a Complicated Geological History
A. Nathues, M. Hoffmann, T. Platz, G.S. Thangjam, E.A. Cloutis, V. Reddy, L. Le Corre, J.-Y. Li, K. Mengel, A. Rivkin, D.M. Applin, M. Schaefer, U. Christensen, H. Sierks, J. Ripken, B.E. Schmidt, H. Hiesinger,…
Matrix effects on the relative sensitivity factors for manganese and chromium during ion microprobe analysis of carbonate: implications for early Solar System chronology
Robert C.J. Steele, Veronika S. Heber, Kevin D. McKeegan Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 November 2016 LINK “The short-lived radionuclide 53Mn decays to 53Cr providing a relative chronometer for…
Pb-Pb Chronometry and the Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
J.N. Connelly, J. Bollard, M. Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 November 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Of the long-lived chronometric systems, only the dual decay of 238U and 235U…
Numerical determination of visible/NIR optical constants from laboratory spectra of HED meteorites
Jorge A.G. Davalos, Jorge Márcio Carvano, Julio Blanco Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 October 2016 LINK “Highlights • Optical constants from reflectance spectra of meteorite samples are retrieved. • The method uses…
Olivine settling in cosmic spherules during atmospheric deceleration: An indicator of the orbital eccentricity of interplanetary dustOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Genge, Martin Suttl Geophysical Research Letters 43 DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070874 First published: 19 October 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Key Points * Antarctic cosmic spherules with cumulate textures are reported * Numerical…
The Impact Ejecta Environment of Near Earth Asteroids
Jamey R. Szalay and Mihály Horány The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 830, Number 2 LINK “Impact ejecta production is a ubiquitous process that occurs on all airless bodies throughout the solar system. Unlike the Moon,…
A renewed search for short-lived 126Sn in the early Solar System: Hydride generation MC-ICPMS for high sensitivity Te isotopic analysis
Gregory A. Brennecka, Lars E. Borg, Stephen J. Romaniello, Amanda K. Souders, Quinn R. Shollenberger, Naomi E. Marks, Meenakshi Wadhwa Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 October 2016 LINK “Although…
The global elemental composition of 433 Eros: First results from the NEAR Gamma-Ray Spectrometer orbital dataset
Patrick N. Peplowski Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2016.10.006 LINK “Highlights • First results from the NEAR GRS orbital investigation • Eros’ surface composition is consistent with ordinary chondrites, enstatite chondrites, and…
Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions with fractionation and unidentified nuclear effects (FUN CAIs): II. Heterogeneities of magnesium isotopes and 26Al in the early Solar System inferred from in situ high-precision magnesium-isotope measurements
Changkun Park, Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot, Gary R. Huss, Andrew M. Davis, Martin Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 October 2016 LINK “Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions with isotopic mass fractionation…
A review of volatiles in the Martian interior
Filiberto, J., Baratoux, D., Beaty, D., Breuer, D., Farcy, B. J., Grott, M., Jones, J. H., Kiefer, W. S., Mane, P., McCubbin, F. M. and Schwenzer, S. P. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12680 Version…
New constraints on the magnetic history of the CV parent body and the solar nebula from the Kaba meteorite
Jérôme Gattacceca, Benjamin P. Weiss, Matthieu Gounelle Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 October 2016 LINK “Highlights • Kaba meteorite is a high-fidelity recorder of the CV parent body…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Prolonged magmatism on 4 Vesta inferred from Hf–W analyses of eucrite zircon
J. Roszjar, M.J. Whitehouse, G. Srinivasan, K. Mezger, E.E. Scherer, J.A. Van Orman, A. Bischoff Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 452, 15 October 2016, Pages 216–226 LINK “Highlights • Distinct zircon growth intervals require…
Predominantly Non-Solar Origin of Nitrogen in Lunar SoilsOPEN ACCESS
J. Mortimer, A.B. Verchovsky, M. Anand Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 August 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Simultaneous static-mode mass spectrometric measurements of nitrogen, carbon, helium, neon, and argon, extracted…
Isotopic enrichment of forming planetary systems from supernova pollutionOPEN ACCESS
Tim Lichtenberg (ETH Zurich), Richard J. Parker (Liverpool JMU), Michael R. Meyer (ETH Zurich) accepted for publication in MNRAS 10.1093/mnras/stw1929 arXiv:1608.01435 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Heating by short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) such as aluminum-26 and iron-60 fundamentally…
Lead isotope evidence for a young formation age of the Earth–Moon systemOPEN ACCESS
J.N. Connelly, M. Bizzarro Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 452, 15 October 2016, Pages 36-43 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • We use Pb isotopes to constrain the timing of the Moon-forming giant impact. •…
A partially differentiated interior for (1) Ceres deduced from its gravity field and shape
R. S. Park, A. S. Konopliv, B. G. Bills, N. Rambaux, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, C. A. Raymond, A. T. Vaughan, A. I. Ermakov, M. T. Zuber, R. R. Fu, M. J. Toplis, C. T. Russell,…
Inward Radial Mixing of Interstellar Water Ices in the Solar Protoplanetary Disk
Lionel G. Vacher, Yves Marrocchi, Maximilien J. Verdier-Paoletti, Johan Villeneuve, and Matthieu Gounelle The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 827, Number 1 Published 2016 August 2 LINK “The very wide diversity of asteroid compositions in the…
An analysis of Apollo lunar soil samples 12070,889, 12030,187, and 12070,891: Basaltic diversity at the Apollo 12 landing site and implications for classification of small-sized lunar samples.
Alexander, L., Snape, J. F., Joy, K. H., Downes, H. and Crawford, I. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12689 LINK “Lunar mare basalts provide insights into the compositional diversity of the Moon’s interior. Basalt…
Energy dissipation at the silica glass/compressed aerogel interface: The fate of Wild 2 mineral grains and fragments smaller than ~100 nm.
Rietmeijer, F. J. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12695 LINK “Allocation FC6,0,10,0,26 from Stardust track 10 shows a slightly wavy silica glass/compressed silica aerogel interface exposing a patchwork of compressed silica aerogel domains and…
Lunar basalt chronology, mantle differentiation and implications for determining the age of the Moon
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 451 Joshua F. Snape, Alexander A. Nemchin, Jeremy J. Bellucci, Martin J. Whitehouse, Romain Tartèse, Jessica J. Barnes, Mahesh Anand, Ian A. Crawford, Katherine H. Joy LINK “Highlights •…
The primordial nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-GerasimenkoOPEN ACCESS
B. J. R. Davidsson, H. Sierks, C. Güttler, F. Marzari, M. Pajola, H. Rickman, M. F. A’Hearn, A.-T. Auger, M. R. El-Maarry, S. Fornasier et al. (38 more) Astronomy Volume 592, August 2016 A&A 592,…
Iron and nickel isotope fractionation by diffusion, with applications to iron meteorites
Heather C. Watson, Frank Richter, Ankun Liu, Gary R. Huss Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 451, 1 October 2016, Pages 159-167 LINK “Highlights • New experimental measurement of diffusive isotopic fractionation in Fe–Ni alloys….
Capture of Trans-Neptunian Planetesimals in the Main Asteroid Belt
David Vokrouhlický, William F. Bottke, and David Nesvorný The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, Number 2 Published 2016 July 26 LINK “The orbital evolution of the giant planets after nebular gas was eliminated from the Solar…
The missing large impact craters on CeresOPEN ACCESS
S. Marchi, A. I. Ermakov, C. A. Raymond, R. R. Fu, D. P. O’Brien, M. T. Bland, E. Ammannito, M. C. De Sanctis, T. Bowling, P. Schenk, J. E. C. Scully, D. L. Buczkowski, D….
Constraints on olivine‐rich rock types on the Moon as observed by Diviner and M3: Implications for the formation of the lunar crust
J. A. Arnold, T. D. Glotch, P. G. Lucey, E. Song, I. R. Thomas, N. E. Bowles, B. T. Greenhagen Journal of Geophysical Research:Planets DOI: 10.1002/2015JE004874 First published: 25 July 2016 LINK “We place upper…
Olivine on Vesta as exogenous contaminants brought by impacts: Constraints from modeling Vesta’s collisional history and from impact simulationsOPEN ACCESS
D. Turrini, V. Svetsov, G. Consolmagno, S. Sirono, S. Pirani PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • The Dawn mission revealed the presence of olivine on…
Characterization of mesostasis regions in lunar basalts: Understanding late-stage melt evolution and its influence on apatite formation.
Potts, N. J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., van Westrenen, W., Griffiths, A. A., Barrett, T. J. and Franchi, I. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12681 LINK “Recent studies geared toward understanding the volatile abundances…
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…
Replacement of glass in the Nakhla meteorite by berthierine: Implications for understanding the origins of aluminum-rich phyllosilicates on Mars.OPEN ACCESS
Lee, M. R. and Chatzitheodoridis, E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12687 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A scanning and transmission electron microscope study of aluminosilicate glasses within melt inclusions from the Martian meteorite Nakhla shows…
Fluids during diagenesis and sulfate vein formation in sediments at Gale crater, Mars.OPEN ACCESS
Schwenzer, S. P., Bridges, J. C., Wiens, R. C., Conrad, P. G., Kelley, S. P., Leveille, R., Mangold, N., Martín-Torres, J., McAdam, A., Newsom, H., Zorzano, M. P., Rapin, W., Spray, J., Treiman, A. H.,…
The effect of titanium on the partitioning behavior of high-field strength elements between silicates, oxides and lunar basaltic melts with applications to the origin of mare basalts
Felipe P. Leitzke, Raúl O.C. Fonseca, Lina T. Michely, Peter Sprung, Carsten Münker, Alexander Heuser, Henrik Blanchard Chemical Geology In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • DHFSEcrystal/melt were calculated from…
Tracking the Distribution of 26Al and 60Fe during the Early Phases of Star and Disk Evolution
Michael Kuffmeier, Troels Frostholm Mogensen, Troels Haugbølle, Martin Bizzarro, and Åke Nordlund The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 826, Number 1 Published 2016 July 18 LINK “The short-lived 26Al and 60Fe radionuclides are synthesized and expelled into…
Do lunar and meteoritic archives record temporal variations in the composition of solar wind noble gases and nitrogen? A reassessment in the light of Genesis data
Rainer Wieler Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Since about half a century samples from the lunar and asteroidal regoliths been used to derive information about…
Secondary submicrometer impact cratering on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Dennis Harries, Shogo Yakame, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Falko Langenhorst Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 337-345 Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • Submicrometer impact craters on RA-QD02-0265…
Boron abundances and isotopic ratios of olivine grains on Itokawa returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft.
Fujiya, W., Hoppe, P. and Ott, U. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12686 LINK “We report the B abundances and isotopic ratios of two olivine grains from the S-type asteroid Itokawa sampled by the Hayabusa…
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…
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…
Zirconium isotope constraints on the composition of Theia and current Moon-forming theoriesOPEN ACCESS
W. Akram, M. Schönbächler Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 449, 1 September 2016, Pages 302-310 Received 26 January 2016, Revised 10 May 2016, Accepted 14 May 2016, Available online 21 June 2016 LINK (OPEN…
Evidence for a Long Duration of the 16O-Rich Reservoir in the Solar Nebula
Ushikubo T. * Tenner T. J. Hiyagon H. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6080 LINK
Chondrule Oxygen Isotope Systematics Among Different Chondrite Groups: Variety of Isotope Reservoirs in the Protoplanetary Disk
Kita N. T. Tenner T. J. Ushikubo T. Hertwig A. Chaumard N. Defouilloy C. Nakashima D. Rudraswami N. G. Weisberg M. K. Kimura M. Nagahara H. Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society…
Relationship Between Asteroid 1 Ceres and Chondrite Meteorites on the Basis of Mineralogy and UV-Visible Spectroscopy
Farsang S. Raub T. D. Grady M. M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6213 LINK
The Chondrule–Matrix Complementarity, a Big Data Approach
Harak M. Hezel D. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6174 LINK
Evidence that 26Al did Not Melt Asteroids
Wasson J. T. * 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6530 LINK
Tungsten Isotope Dichotomy Among Iron Meteorite Parent Bodies: Implications for the Timescales of Accretion and Core Formation
Kruijer T. S. * Kleine T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6449 LINK
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
Do We have Meteorites from the Veritas Asteroid Break-Up Event 8 Ma ago?
Meier M. M. M. * Grimm S. Maden C. Busemann H. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6291] LINK
On the Nature of the Impactor That Formed the Shackleton Crater on the Moon
Svetlana G. Pugacheva, Ekaterina A. Feoktistova Earth, Moon, and Planets pp 1-24, 10.1007/s11038-016-9489-y First online: 14 June 2016 LINK “The present paper attempts to assess the characteristics of the impactor that formed the Shackleton crater,…
Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions
Paul D. Asimow, Chaney Lin, Luca Bindi, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, Lincoln S. Hollister, and Paul J. Steinhardt PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print June 13, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1600321113 LINK “Significance The singular occurrence, to date,…
Titanium stable isotope investigation of magmatic processes on the Earth and Moon
Marc-Alban Millet, Nicolas Dauphas, Nicolas D. Greber, Kevin W. Burton, Chris W. Dale, Baptiste Debret, Colin G. Macpherson, Geoffrey M. Nowell, Helen M. Williams Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 449, 1 September 2016, Pages…
On the iron isotope composition of Mars and volatile depletion in the terrestrial planets
Paolo A. Sossi, Oliver Nebel, Mahesh Anand, Franck Poitrasson Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 June 2016 LINK “Iron is the most abundant multivalent element in planetary reservoirs, meaning…
Gas/solid carbon branching ratios in surface-mediated reactions and the incorporation of carbonaceous material into planetesimals.
Nuth, J. A., Johnson, N. M., Ferguson, F. T. and Carayon, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12666 LINK “We report the ratio of the initial carbon available as CO that forms gas-phase compounds compared…
The Collisional Evolution of Undifferentiated Asteroids and the Formation of Chondritic Meteoroids
E. Beitz, J. Blum, M. G. Parisi, and J. Trigo-Rodriguez The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 824, Number 1 Published 2016 June 3 LINK “Most meteorites are fragments from recent collisions experienced in the asteroid belt. In…
An asteroidal origin for water in the MoonOPEN ACCESS
Jessica J. Barnes, David A. Kring, Romain Tartèse, Ian A. Franchi, Mahesh Anand & Sara S. Russell Nature Communications7, Article number:11684 doi:10.1038/ncomms11684 Published 31 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The Apollo-derived tenet of an anhydrous…
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…
Prebiotic chemicals—amino acid and phosphorus—in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger, Akiva Bar-Nun, Jean-Jacques Berthelier, Andre Bieler, Peter Bochsler, Christelle Briois, Ursina Calmonte, Michael R. Combi, Hervé Cottin, Johan De Keyser, Frederik Dhooghe, Bjorn Fiethe, Stephen A. Fuselier, Sébastien Gasc, Tamas I….
Influence of mineralogy on the preservation of amino acids under simulated Mars conditionsOPEN ACCESS
Renato dos Santos, Manish Patel, Javier Cuadros, Zita Martins Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The detection of organic molecules associated with life on Mars is one of…
Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs
Katharine L. Robinson, Jessica J. Barnes, Kazuhide Nagashima, Aurélien Thomen, Ian A. Franchi, Gary R. Huss, Mahesh Anand, G. Jeffrey Taylor Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 May 2016 LINK…
Differentiated planetesimal impacts into a terrestrial magma ocean: Fate of the iron core
Jordan D. Kendall, H.J. Melosh Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 448, 15 August 2016, Pages 24–33 LINK “The abundance of moderately siderophile elements (“iron-loving”; e.g. Co, Ni) in the Earth’s mantle is 10 to…
Searching for calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in cometary particles with Rosetta/COSIMA.
Paquette, J. A., Engrand, C., Stenzel, O., Hilchenbach, M., Kissel, J. and the COSIMA Team Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12669 LINK “The calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) found in chondritic meteorites are probably the oldest solar…
Bayes’ theorem and early solar short-lived radionuclides: the case for an unexceptional origin for the solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Edward D. Young In press, ApJ PDF (open access) abstract “The presence of excesses of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system evidenced in meteorites has been taken as testament to close encounters with exotic…
Chemical Complementarity between the Gas Phase of the Interstellar Medium and the Rocky Material of Our Planetary SystemOPEN ACCESS
Haiyang Wang (RSAA, The Australian National University), Charles H. Lineweaver (RSAA, RSES, The Australian National University) Accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 15th Australian Space Research Conference PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “We…
A link between oxygen, calcium and titanium isotopes in 26Al-depleted hibonite-rich CAIs from Murchison and implications for the heterogeneity of dust reservoirs in the solar nebula
Levke Kööp, Andrew M. Davis, Daisuke Nakashima, Changkun Park, Alexander N. Krot, Kazuhide Nagashima, Travis J. Tenner, Philipp R. Heck, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 13 May…
The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites.OPEN ACCESS
Barrett, T. J., Barnes, J. J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., Franchi, I. A., Greenwood, R. C., Charlier, B. L. A. and Grady, M. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12649 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
Nanomorphology of Itokawa regolith particles:Application to space-weathering processes affecting the Itokawa asteroid
Toru Matsumoto, Akira Tsuchiama, Kentaro Uesugi, Tsukasa Nakano, Masayuki Uesugi, Junya Matsuno, Takashi Nagano, Akira Shimada, Akihisa Takeuchi, Yoshio Suzuki, Tomoki Nakamura, Michihiko Nakamura, Arnold Gucsik, Keita Nagaki, Tatsuhiro Sakaiya, Tadashi Kondo Geochimica et Cosmochimica…
Effect of chlorine on near-liquidus crystallization of olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 6234 at 1 GPa: Implication for volatile-induced melting of the Martian mantle.
Farcy, B. J., Gross, J., Carpenter, P., Hicks, J. and Filiberto, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12662 LINK “Martian magmas are thought to be rich in chlorine compared with their terrestrial counterparts. Here, we…
Scale-Dependent Measurements of Meteorite Strength: Implications for Asteroid Fragmentation.
Desireé Cotto-Figueroa, Erik Asphaug, Laurence A.J. Garvie, Ashwin Rai, Joel Johnston, Luke Borkowski, Siddhant Datta, Aditi Chattopadhyay, Melissa A. Morris Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 May 2016 LINK “Measuring the strengths of…
Petrology and oxygen isotopic compositions of clasts in HED polymict breccia NWA 5232.
van Drongelen, K. D., Rumble, D. and Tait, K. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12651 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 5232, an 18.5 kg polymict eucrite, comprises eucritic and exogenic CM carbonaceous chondrite clasts within…
Petrogenesis of the Northwest Africa 4898 high-Al mare basalt.
Li, S., Hsu, W., Guan, Y., Wang, L. and Wang, Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12663 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 4898 is the only low-Ti, high-Al basaltic lunar meteorite yet recognized. It predominantly consists…
A new approach to cosmogenic corrections in 40Ar/39Ar chronometry: Implications for the ages of Martian meteorites
W.S. Cassata, L.E. Borg Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 May 2016 LINK “Anomalously old 40Ar/39Ar ages are commonly obtained from Shergottites and are generally attributed to uncertainties regarding the…
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…
Origin of molecular oxygen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
O. Mousis, T. Ronnet, B. Brugger, O. Ozgurel, F. Pauzat, Y. Ellinger, R. Maggiolo, P. Wurz, P. Vernazza, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, K. E. Mandt, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, A. Markovits, M. Rubin The…
A protosolar nebula origin for the ices agglomerated by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
O. Mousis, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, T. Guillot, B. Marty, M. Ali-Dib, P. Wurz, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, M. Hässig, M. Rubin, P. Vernazza, J. H. Waite The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press PDF…
Inner solar system material discovered in the Oort cloud
By Karen J. Meech, Bin Yang, Jan Kleyna, Olivier R. Hainaut, Svetlana Berdyugina, Jacqueline V. Keane, Marco Micheli, Alessandro Morbidelli, Richard J. Wainscoat Science Advances 29 Apr 2016: Vol. 2, no. 4, e1600038 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600038…
Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon
Gavin G. Kenny, Martin J. Whitehouse, Balz S. Kamber Geology DOI: 10.1130/G37898.1 First Published on April 28, 2016 LINK “Constraining the origin and history of very ancient detrital zircons has unique potential for furthering our…
Generating potassium abundance variations in the Solar Nebula
Alexander Hubbard Accepted for publication, ApJ PDF (open access) abstract “An intriguing aspect of chondritic meteorites is that they are complementary: while their separate components have wildly varying abundances, bulk chondrites have nearly solar composition….
Chondritic xenon in the Earth’s mantle
Antonio Caracausi,Guillaume Avice,Peter G. Burnard, Evelyn Füri,Bernard Marty Nature (25 April 2016) | doi:10.1038/nature17434 LINK “Noble gas isotopes are powerful tracers of the origins of planetary volatiles, and the accretion and evolution of the Earth….
A note on cement in asteroids
G. Bilalbegovic accepted for publications in Icarus PDF (open access) abstract “Cement mineral tobermorite was formed in hydrothermal experiments on alternation of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Unidentified bands at 14 microns were…
New constraints on the relationship between 26Al and oxygen, calcium, and titanium isotopic variation in the early Solar System from a multielement isotopic study of spinel-hibonite inclusions
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, Available online 20 April 2016 LINK…
Evidence for high-temperature fractionation of lithium isotopes during differentiation of the Moon.
Day, J. M. D., Qiu, L., Ash, R. D., McDonough, W. F., Teng, F.-Z., Rudnick, R. L. and Taylor, L. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12643 LINK “Lithium isotope and abundance data are reported…
Heterogeneous distribution of H2O in the Martian interior: Implications for the abundance of H2O in depleted and enriched mantle sources.
McCubbin, F. M., Boyce, J. W., Srinivasan, P., Santos, A. R., Elardo, S. M., Filiberto, J., Steele, A. and Shearer, C. K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12639 LINK “We conducted a petrologic study of…
New triple oxygen isotope data of bulk and separated fractions from SNC meteorites: Evidence for mantle homogeneity of Mars.
Ali, A., Jabeen, I., Gregory, D., Verish, R. and Banerjee, N. R. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12640 LINK “We report precise triple oxygen isotope data of bulk materials and separated fractions of several Shergotty–Nakhla–Chassigny…
Electrical properties and porosity of the first meter of the nucleus of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. As constrained by the Permittivity Probe SESAME-PP/Philae/Rosetta
Anthony Lethuillier, Alice Le Gall, Michel Hamelin, Walter Schmidt, Klaus J. Seidensticker, Réjean Grard, Valérie Ciarletti, Sylvain Caujolle-Bert, Hans-Herbert Fischer, Roland Trautner Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF (open access) abstract “Comets are primitive objects,…
The collisional evolution of undifferentiated asteroids and the formation of chondritic meteoroids
Eike Beitz, Jürgen Blum, M. Gabriela Parisi, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez Accepted by ApJ PDF (open access) “Most meteorites are fragments from recent collisions experienced in the asteroid belt. In such a hyper-velocity collision, the smaller…
Formation and Recondensation of Complex Organic Molecules during Protostellar Luminosity Outbursts
Vianney Taquet, Eva S. Wirström, and Steven B. Charnley The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 821, Number 1 LINK “During the formation of stars, the accretion of surrounding material toward the central object is thought to undergo…
Ribose and related sugars from ultraviolet irradiation of interstellar ice analogs
Cornelia Meinert, Iuliia Myrgorodska, Pierre de Marcellus, Thomas Buhse, Laurent Nahon, Søren V. Hoffmann, Louis Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt, Uwe J. Meierhenrich Science 08 Apr 2016: Vol. 352, Issue 6282, pp. 208-212 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8137 LINK “Ribose…
Identification and Discrimination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Raman Spectroscopy
Edward Cloutis, Paul Szymanski, Daniel Applin, Douglas Goltz Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 April 2016 LINK “Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widely present throughout the solar system and beyond. They have been…
The oxidation state and mass of the Moon-forming impactor
Jon Wade , Bernard J. Wood Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 442, 15 May 2016, Pages 186–193 LINK (open access) “Physical simulations of the origin of the Moon have, until recently, centred on impact,…
Geochemistry of the lunar highlands as revealed by measurements of thermal neutrons
Patrick N. Peplowski, Andrew W. Beck, David J. Lawrence Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 10.1002/2015JE004950 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Thermal neutron emissions from the lunar surface provide a direct measure of bulk elemental composition that can…
The Red Edge Problem in asteroid band parameter analysis.
Lindsay, S. S., Dunn, T. L., Emery, J. P. and Bowles, N. E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12611 LINK “Near-infrared reflectance spectra of S-type asteroids contain two absorptions at 1 and 2 μm (band…
The effects of short-lived radionuclides and porosity on the early thermo-mechanical evolution of planetesimals
Tim Lichtenberg, Gregor J. Golabek, Taras V. Gerya, Michael R. Meyer Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 March 2016 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.03.004 Updated (22 March): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “The thermal history and internal structure…
The stable Cr isotopic compositions of chondrites and silicate planetary reservoirs
Ronny Schoenberg, Alexandra Merdian, Chris Holmden, Ilka C. Kleinhanns, Kathrin Haßler, Martin Wille, Elmar Reitter Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 March 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.03.013 LINK “The depletion of chromium in…
Mineralogy and Geology of asteroid (4) Vesta from Dawn Framing Camera
Guneshwar Thangjam PhD Thesis, Clausthal University of Technology, 2015 PDF (open access) abstract “This thesis presents insights into the surface compositional heterogeneity and geology of asteroid Vesta. Lithologic mapping using Framing Camera onboard the NASA…
