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…
Ferromagnetism and particle collisions: applications to protoplanetary disks and the meteoritical record
Alexander Hubbard accepted, ApJ update (July 27): LINK PDF (open access) abstract “The meteoritical record shows both iron partitioning and tungsten isotopic partitioning between matrix and chondrules. Tungsten is not abundant enough to have driven…
Effects of dust enrichment on oxygen fugacity of cosmic gases.
Fedkin, A. V. and Grossman, L. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12627 LINK “The degree to which dust enrichment enhances the oxygen fugacity (fO2) of a system otherwise solar in composition depends on the dust…
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, and J. H. Waite The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 819,…
Did Jupiter’s core form in the innermost parts of the Sun’s protoplanetary disk?
Sean N. Raymond, Andre Izidoro, Bertram Bitsch, Seth A. Jacobson Accepted to MNRAS arXiv:1602.06573v2 last revised: 7 Mar 2016 PDF (open access) abstract “Jupiter’s core is generally assumed to have formed beyond the snow line….
Origin of uranium isotope variations in early solar nebula condensates
By François L. H. Tissot, Nicolas Dauphas, Lawrence Grossman Science Advances 04 Mar 2016: Vol. 2, no. 3, e1501400 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501400 PDF (open access) abstract Supplementary Materials (PDF) “High-temperature condensates found in meteorites display uranium…
Mesoscale Modeling of Impact Compaction of Primitive Solar System Solids
Thomas M Davison, Gareth S Collins, Philip A Bland Accepted for publication in ApJ (Submitted on 1 Mar 2016) PDF (open access) abstract “We have developed a method for simulating the mesoscale compaction of early…
Refractory and semi-volatile organics at the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Insights from the VIRTIS/ROSETTA Imaging Spectrometer
E. Quirico, L.V. Moroz, B. Schmitt, G. Arnold, M. Faure, P. Beck, L. Bonal, M. Ciarniello, F. Capaccioni, G. Filacchione, S. Erard, C. Leyrat, D. Bockelée-Morvan, A. Zinzi, E. Palomba, P. Drossart, F. Tosi, M.T….
Exploring the Origins of Deuterium Enrichments in Solar Nebular Organics
L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Edwin A. Bergin, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Fujun Du, Dawn Graninger, Karin I. Öberg, and Tim J. Harries Astrophysical Journal, Volume 819, Number 1 Published 2016 February 23 LINK “Deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) enrichments…
Oxygen isotopes in the early protoplanetary disk inferred from pyroxene in a classical type B CAI
Jérôme Aléon Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 440, 15 April 2016, Pages 62–70 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.007 LINK “A major unanswered question in solar system formation is the origin of the oxygen isotopic dichotomy between the Sun…
Spherule layers, crater scaling laws, and the population of ancient terrestrial impactors
Brandon C. Johnson, Gareth S. Collins, David A. Minton, Timothy J. Bowling, Bruce M. Simonson, Maria T. Zuber Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 February 2016 LINK “Ancient layers of impact spherules provide…
Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family
V. Carruba, D. Nesvorný, S. Marchi, S. Aljbaae Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (open access) abstract “Ceres is the largest and most massive body in the asteroid main belt. Observational data from the Dawn…
A meteorite perspective on asteroid hazard mitigation
Derek W.G. Sears, Hazel Sears, Daniel R. Ostrowski, Kathryne L. Bryson, Jessie Dotson, Megan Syal, Damian C Swift Planetary and Space Science Review article In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2016.01.016 LINK…
Lithologic variation within bright material on Vesta revealed by linear spectral unmixing
F. Zambon, F. Tosi, C. Carli, M.C. De Sanctis, D.T. Blewett, E. Palomba, A. Longobardo, A. Frigeri, E. Ammannito, C.T. Russell, C.A. Raymond Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 February 2016 LINK “Vesta’s…
Asteroid (16) Psyche: The Science of Visiting a Metal World
L. T. Elkins-Tanton, E. Asphaug, J. Bell, D. Bercovici, B. G. Bills, R. P. Binzel, W. F. Bottke, J. Goldsten, R. Jaumann, I. Jun, D. J. Lawrence, S. Marchi, D. Oh, R. Park, P. N….
A Core Dynamo on an Iron Meteorite Parent Body and the Magnetism of Metallic Asteroids
B. P. Weiss, J. F. J. Bryson, R. J. Harrison, J. A. Neufeld, L. T. Elkins-Tanton, C. T. Russell, C. A. Raymond, F. Nimmo, J. Herrero-Albillos, F. Kronast 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016),…
The Diversity of Anomalous HEDs: Isotopic Constraints on the Connection of EET 92023, GRA 98098, and Dhofar 700 with Vesta
M. E. Sanborn, Q.-Z. Yin, D. W. Mittlefehldt 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #2256 PDF
Rationalizing the Composition and Alteration of Ceres
H. Y. McSween, J. Castillo-Rogez, J. P. Emery, M. C. De Sanctis, Dawn Science Team 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1258 PDF
D/H-Ratio and Microstructure of a Strongly Hydrated Microclast in the Rumuruti Chondrite Northwest Africa 6828
A. Greshake, P. Hoppe, R. Wirth 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1026 PDF
A Highly Unusual Clast in Semarkona with a Complex Evolutionary History: Further Evidence of the Diversity of Solar Nebula Materials and Processes
E. Dobrica, A. J. Brearley, D. S. Ebel, M. K. Weisberg, K. Ziegler 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #2317 PDF
Refining Theories of Accretion in the Early Solar System: Petrographic, Major-, Platinum-Group Element, and Osmium Isotope Characteristics of Angrite Metals
A. J. V. Riches, K. W. Burton, G. M. Nowell, C. W. Dale, A. J. Irving, A. R. Santos 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #2858 PDF
A homogeneous nucleus for comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from its gravity field
M. Pätzold T. Andert M. Hahn S. W. Asmar J.-P. Barriot M. K. Bird B. Häusler K. Peter S. Tellmann E. Grün P. R. Weissman H. Sierks L. Jorda R. Gaskell F. Preusker F. Scholten…
The initial abundance and distribution of 92Nb in the Solar System
Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Yi-Jen Lai, Waheed Akram, Yuri Amelin, Maria Schönbächler Earth and Planetary Science Letters Available online 11 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.005 Updated: February 11, 2016 PDF (open access) abstract “Niobium-92 is an extinct proton-rich nuclide,…
Mobility of Iron and Nickel at Low Temperatures: Implications for 60Fe-60Ni Systematics of Chondrules from Unequilibrated Ordinary Chondrites
Myriam Telus, Gary R. Huss, Ryan C. Ogliore, Kazuhide Nagashima, Daryl L. Howard, Matthew G. Newville, Andrew G. Tomkins Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 February 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.046 LINK “The…
Typology of dust particles collected by the COSIMA mass spectrometer in the inner coma of 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko
Y. Langevin, M. Hilchenbach, N. Ligier, S. Merouane, K. Hornung, C. Engrand, R. Schulz, J. Kissel, J. Rynö, P. Eng, the COSIMA team Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 January 2016 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.01.027 LINK…
Oxygen isotopic evidence for vigorous mixing during the Moon-forming giant impact
By Edward D. Young, Issaku E. Kohl, Paul H. Warren, David C. Rubie, Seth A. Jacobson, Alessandro Morbidelli Science 29 Jan 2016: Vol. 351, Issue 6272, pp. 493-496 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0525 update (16 March): PDF (open…
Chronological study of oxygen isotope composition for the solar protoplanetary disk recorded in a fluffy Type A CAI from Vigarano
Noriyuki Kawasaki, Shoichi Itoh, Naoya Sakamoto, Hisayoshi Yurimoto Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 January 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.031 LINK “Fluffy Type A Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) containing reversely zoned melilite crystals are…
40 Ar/ 39 Ar and cosmic ray exposure ages of plagioclase-rich lithic fragments from Apollo 17 regolith, 78461
J. Das, S. Baldwin, J. Delano Earth, Planets and Space 2016, 68:11 (26 January 2016) PDF (open access) abstract “Argon isotopic data is used to assess the potential of low-mass samples collected by sample return…
The chlorine isotope composition of Martian meteorites 2. Implications for the early solar system and the formation of Mars
Sharp, Z., Williams, J., Shearer, C., Agee, C. and McKeegan, K. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12591 Article first published online: 22 JAN 2016 LINK “We determined the chlorine isotope composition of 16 Martian meteorites…
New reflectance spectra of 40 asteroids: A comparison with the previous results and an interpretation
V. V. Busarev Solar System Research January 2016, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp 13-23 First online: 22 January 2016 (Original Russian Text © V.V. Busarev, 2016, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1,…
Spectral variability on primitive asteroids of the Themis and Beagle families: space weathering effects or parent body heterogeneity? (updated: Jan. 21)
S. Fornasier, C. Lantz, D. Perna, H. Campins, M.A. Barucci, D. Nesvorny Icarus Available online 15 January 2016 Last update (21 January 2016): PDF (open access) LINK “Themis is an old and statistically robust asteroid…
Constraints on core formation in Vesta from metal–silicate partitioning of siderophile elements
E.S. Steenstra, J.S. Knibbe, N. Rai, W. van Westrenen Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 January 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.002 LINK “It is now widely accepted that the asteroid 4–Vesta has an…
The atmospheric impact trajectory of asteroid 2014 AA
D. Farnocchia, S. R. Chesley, P. G. Brown, P. W. Chodas PDF (open access) abstract updated on 10 March: Icarus, in Press, Accepted Manuscript LINK “Near-Earth asteroid 2014 AA entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 2014…
Origin of the p-process radionuclides 92Nb and 146Sm in the early solar system and inferences on the birth of the Sun
Maria Lugaro, Marco Pignatari, Ulrich Ott, Kai Zuber, Claudia Travaglio, György Gyürky, and Zsolt Fülöp PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print January 11, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1519344113 LINK “Significance Radioactive nuclei with half-lives of the order of…
Abundance of 60Fe inferred from nanoSIMS study of QUE 97008 (L3.05) chondrules
Ritesh Kumar Mishra, Kuljeet Kaur Marhas, Sameer Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 436 Available online 11 January 2016 LINK “60Fe–60Ni relative chronometry (t1/2=2.62 Mat1/2=2.62 Ma) studies within silicate phases of two chondrules (Ch1b, Ch5)…
2D condensation model for the inner Solar Nebula: an enstatite-rich environment
Francesco C. Pignatale, Kurt Liffman, Sarah T. Maddison, Geoffrey Brooks Accepted in MNRAS on 2015 December 23. Received 2015 December 16; in original form 2015 May 04 Published online on 7 Jan 2016 PDF (open…
High crustal diversity preserved in the lunar meteorite Mount DeWitt 12007 (Victoria Land, Antarctica)
Collareta, A., D’Orazio, M., Gemelli, M., Pack, A. and Folco, L. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12597 Article first published online: 8 JAN 2016 LINK The meteorite Mount DeWitt (DEW) 12007 is a polymict regolith…
Complexities in pyroxene compositions derived from absorption band centers: Examples from Apollo samples, HED meteorites, synthetic pure pyroxenes, and remote sensing data
Moriarty, D. P. and Pieters, C. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12588 Article first published online: 8 JAN 2016 LINK
Space weathering of silicates simulated by successive laser irradiation: In situ reflectance measurements of Fo90, Fo99+, and SiO2.
Loeffler, M. J., Dukes, C. A., Christoffersen, R. and Baragiola, R. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12581 Article first published online: 8 JAN 2016 LINK
Core solidification and dynamo evolution in a mantle-stripped planetesimal
A. Scheinberg, L. T. Elkins-Tanton, G. Schubert and D. Bercovici Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Article first published online: 5 JAN 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/2015JE004843 LINK “The physical processes active during the crystallization of a…
Advances in determining asteroid chemistries and mineralogies
Thomas H. Burbine Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry Review article In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 23 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2015.09.003 LINK “Considerable progress has been made in the last few years in determining asteroid chemistries…
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…
Evidence from Tm anomalies for non-CI refractory lithophile element proportions in terrestrial planets and achondrites
J.A. Barrat, N. Dauphas, P. Gillet, C. Bollinger, J. Etoubleau, A. Bischoff, A. Yamaguchi Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.004 LINK “Thulium is a heavy rare earth…
Grosvenor Mountains 95 howardite pairing group: Insights into the surface regolith of asteroid 4 Vesta.
Lunning, N. G., Welten, K. C., McSween, H. Y., Caffee, M. W. and Beck, A. W. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12580 Article first published online: 16 DEC 2015 LINK “Regolithic howardites are analogs for…
Fossilized condensation lines in the Solar System protoplanetary disk
A. Morbidelli, B. Bitsch, A. Crida, M. Gounelle, T. Guillot, S. Jacobson, A. Johansen, M. Lambrechts, E. Lega Icarus Available online 12 December 2015 LINK (open access) “The terrestrial planets and the asteroids dominant in…
Geochemistry, thermal evolution, and cryovolcanism on Ceres with a muddy ice mantle
Marc Neveu, Steven J. Desch Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2015GL066375 published: 12 December 2015 LINK “We present a model of the internal evolution of Ceres consistent with pre-Dawn observations and preliminary data returned by Dawn. We…
Mineralogy and petrology of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 2977 consisting of olivine cumulate gabbro including inverted pigeonite
Hiroshi Nagaoka, Yuzuru Karouji, Hiroshi Takeda, Timothy Fagan, Mitsuru Ebihara, Nobuyuki Hasebe Earth Earth, Planets and Space 2015, 67:200 (12 December 2015) doi:10.1186/s40623-015-0368-y LINK (open access) “nar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2977 is identified as…
Accretion Timescale and Impact History of Mars Deduced from the Isotopic Systematics of Martian Meteorites
Lars E. Borg, Gregory A. Brennecka, Steven J.K. Symes Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.12.002 LINK Update (24 June 2016): Evolution of the Solar System Inferred from…
Mass dependent fractionation of stable chromium isotopes in mare basalts: implications for the formation and the differentiation of the Moon
Pierre Bonnand, Ian J. Parkinson, Mahesh Anand Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.11.041 LINK (open access)
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions I: An analogue for low porosity targets
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, P. Ioannidis, M.J. Cole PDF (full text) abstract “Recent observations of asteroidal surfaces indicate the presence of materials that do not match the bulk lithology of the body. A…
Three-dimensional spectral analysis of compositional heterogeneity at Arruntia crater on (4) Vesta using Dawn FC
Guneshwar Thangjam, Andreas Nathues, Kurt Mengel, Michael Schäfer, Martin Hoffmann, Edward A. Cloutis, Paul Mann, Christian Müller, Thomas Platz, Tanja Schäfer manuscript accepted for publication (Icarus/YICAR11819) PDF (full text) abstract
Sublimation in bright spots on (1) Ceres
A. Nathues, M. Hoffmann, M. Schaefer, L. Le Corre, V. Reddy + et al. Nature 528, 237–240 (09 December 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature15754 LINK “The dwarf planet (1) Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid…
Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer Solar System origin on (1) Ceres
M. C. De Sanctis, E. Ammannito, A. Raponi, S. Marchi, T. B. McCord + et al. Nature 528, 241–244 (09 December 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature16172 LINK “Studies of the dwarf planet (1) Ceres using ground-based and…
The building blocks of Earth and Mars: A close genetic link
Caroline Fitoussi, Bernard Bourdon, Xueying Wang Earth and Planetary Science Letters Available online 8 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.036 LINK “The Earth formed in a swarm of Moon- to Mars-sized objects that collided together to build our…
Accretion timescales and style of asteroidal differentiation in an 26Al-poor protoplanetary disk
K.K. Larsen, M. Schiller, M. Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.10.036 LINK “The decay of radioactive 26Al to 26Mg (half-life of 730,000 years) is postulated to…
Annealing of radiation damage in zircons from Apollo 14 impact breccia 14311: Implications for the thermal history of the breccia.
Pidgeon, R. T., Merle, R. E., Grange, M. L., Nemchin, A. A. and Whitehouse, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12572 LINK
Petrology and provenance of a very-low-titanium picrite clast in lunar highland regolith breccia 15295
Sonzogni, Y., Kramer, G. Y. and Treiman, A. H. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12579 LINK
Ancient stardust in fine-grained chondrule dust rims from carbonaceous chondrites
Jan Leitner, Christian Vollmer, Christine Floss, Jutta Zipfel, Peter Hoppe Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 3 December 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.028 LINK “Carbonaceous chondrites are fragments from primitive parent asteroids, which…
The UV signature of carbon in the solar system.
Hendrix, A. R., Vilas, F. and Li, J.-Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12575 LINK “Carbon compounds are ubiquitous in the solar system but are challenging to study using remote sensing due to the mostly…
Spectral characterization of V-type asteroids – II. A statistical analysis
S. Ieva, E. Dotto, D. Lazzaro, D. Perna, D. Fulvio4 and M. Fulchignoni MNRAS (January 21, 2016) 455 (3): 2871-2888. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2510 First published online November 25, 2015 LINK “In recent years, several small basaltic…
The early thermal evolution of Mars
Bhatia, G. K. and Sahijpal, S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12573 LINK “Hf-W isotopic systematics of Martian meteorites have provided evidence for the early accretion and rapid core formation of Mars. We present the…
Did the Solar System form in a sequential triggered star formation event?
Richard J. Parker, James E. Dale accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (full text) abstract “The presence and abundance of the short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) $^{26}$Al and $^{60}$Fe during the formation of the Solar System is…
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‰….
The Pb isotopic evolution of the Martian mantle constrained by initial Pb in Martian meteorites
Bellucci, J. J., Nemchin, A. A., Whitehouse, M. J., Snape, J. F., Bland, P., Benedix, G.K. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Accepted manuscript online: 21 November 2015 DOI: 10.1002/2015JE004809 LINK “The Pb isotopic compositions of…
The accretion and differentiation of Earth under oxidizing conditions
R. Bastian Georg and Anat Shahar American Mineralogist doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5153 Volume 100 no. 11-12 p. 2739-2748 LINK “We present a new approach to model planetary accretion and continuous core formation, and discuss the implications if…
Petrology on Mars
Harry Y. McSween Jr. American Mineralogist doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5257 Volume 100 no. 11-12 p. 2380-2395 INVITED CENTENNIAL ARTICLE / REVIEW PDF (full text) abstract “Petrologic investigations of martian rocks have been accomplished by mineralogical, geochemical, and…
Nickeliferous pyrite tracks pervasive hydrothermal alteration in Martian regolith breccia: A study in NWA 7533
Lorand, J.-P., Hewins, R. H., Remusat, L., Zanda, B., Pont, S., Leroux, H., Marinova, M., Jacob, D., Humayun, M., Nemchin, A., Grange, M., Kennedy, A. and Göpel, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12565 LINK…
Accreting protoplanets in the LkCa 15 transition disk
S. Sallum, K. B. Follette, J. A. Eisner, L. M. Close, P. Hinz + et al. Nature 527, 342–344 (18 November 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature15761 LINK “Exoplanet detections have revolutionized astronomy, offering new insights into solar…
2P/Encke, the Taurid complex NEOs and the Maribo and Sutter’s Mill meteorites
C. Tubiana, C. Snodgrass, R. Michelsen, H. Haack, H. Boehnhardt, A. Fitzsimmons, I. P. Williams in press in A&A PDF (full text) abstract “The Taurid meteoroid stream has long been linked with 2P/Encke owing to…
The origin of the neon isotopes in chondrites and on Earth
Manuel Moreira, Sébastien Charnoz Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 November 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.11.002 LINK “We discuss the origin of the neon isotopic signatures in chondrites and in the terrestrial…
Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle
Lydia J. Hallis, Gary R. Huss, Kazuhide Nagashima, G. Jeffrey Taylor, Sæmundur A. Halldórsson, David R. Hilton, Michael J. Mottl, Karen J. Meech Science 13 November 2015: Vol. 350 no. 6262 pp. 795-797 DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4834…
Phosphate ages in Apollo 14 breccias: Resolving multiple impact events with high precision U–Pb SIMS analyses
J.F. Snape, A.A. Nemchin, M.L. Grange, J.J. Bellucci, F. Thiessen, M.J. Whitehouse Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Volume 174, 1 February 2016, Pages 13–29 LINK “The U–Pb systems of apatite and merrillite grains within four separate…
Chondrule Formation via Impact Jetting Triggered by Planetary Accretion
Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Shigeru Wakita, Yuji Matsumoto, Shoichi Oshino accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (full text) abstract Update (Dec 21): LINK “Chondrules are one of the most primitive elements that can serve as a fundamental…
Lunar volatile depletion due to incomplete accretion within an impact-generated disk
Robin M. Canup, Channon Visscher, Julien Salmon & Bruce Fegley Jr Nature Geoscience(2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2574 Published online 09 November 2015 LINK
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…
40Ar/39Ar age of material returned from asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Park, J., Turrin, B. D., Herzog, G. F., Lindsay, F. N., Delaney, J. S., Swisher, C. C., Uesugi, M., Karouji, Y., Yada, T., Abe, M., Okada, T. and Ishibashi, Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi:…
The survivability of phyllosilicates and carbonates impacting Stardust Al foils: Facilitating the search for cometary water.
Wozniakiewicz, P. J., Ishii, H. A., Kearsley, A. T., Bradley, J. P., Price, Mark. C., Burchell, M. J., Teslich, N. and Cole, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12568 LINK
Are some meteoroids rubble piles?
Jiří Borovička Paper presented at the IAU Symposium 318 Asteroids: New Observations, New Models (Honolulu, USA, August 3-7, 2015). Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union arXiv:1510.07869 PDF (full text) abstract…
Nebular dead zone effects on the D/H ratio in chondrites and comets
M. Ali-Dib, R. G. Martin, J.-M. Petit, O. Mousis, P. Vernazza and J. I. Lunine A&A, Volume 583, November 2015 LINK “Context. Comets and chondrites show non-monotonic behavior of their deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratio as a…
Spectral Parameters for Dawn FC Color Data: Carbonaceous Chondrites and Aqueous Alteration Products as Potential Cerean Analog Materials
Tanja Schäfer, Andreas Nathues, Kurt Mengel, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Edward A. Cloutis, Michael Schäfer, Martin Hoffmann Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.10.005
Vestoids, Part II: The basaltic nature and HED meteorite analogs for eight Vp-type asteroids and their associations with (4) Vesta
Paul S. Hardersen, Vishnu Reddy, Rachel Roberts arXiv:1510.06636 (Submitted on 22 Oct 2015) PDF (full text) abstract “Improving constraints on the abundance of basaltic asteroids in the main asteroid belt is necessary for better understanding…
Mn-Cr relative sensitivity factor in ferromagnesian olivines defined for SIMS measurements with a Cameca ims-1280 ion microprobe: Implications for dating secondary fayalite
Patricia M. Doyle, Kaori Jogo, Kazuhide Nagashima, Gary R. Huss, Alexander N. Krot Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.10.010 LINK “The short-lived radionuclide 53Mn, which decays to…
Simulating the Formation of Carbon-rich Molecules on an idealised Graphitic Surface
David W. Marshall, H. R. Sadeghpour the manuscript has been submitted to MNRAS for publication PDF (full text) abstract “There is accumulating evidence for the presence of complex molecules, including carbon-bearing and organic molecules, in…
The origin of amino acids in lunar regolith samples
Jamie E. Elsila, Michael P. Callahan, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Hannah L. McLain, Sarah K. Noble, Everett K. Gibson Jr. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 October 2015…
The growth of planets by pebble accretion in evolving protoplanetary discs
Bertram Bitsch, Michiel Lambrechts and Anders Johansen A&A Volume 582, October 2015, A112 Published online: 20 October 2015 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526463 LINK
Formation timescales of CV chondrites from component specific Hf–W systematics
Maike Becker, Dominik C. Hezel, Toni Schulz, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Carsten Münker Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.049 LINK “Carbonaceous chondrites are an important meteorite group that…
Ciechanów fireball: the body possibly related to near earth asteroids 2010 TB54 and 2010 SX11
A. Olech, P. Żołądek, M. Wiśniewski, R. Rudawska, J. Laskowski, K. Polakowski, M. Maciejewski, T. Krzyżanowski, T. Fajfer, and Z. Tymiński MNRAS(December 11, 2015) Vol. 454 2965-2971 doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1993 First published online October 17, 2015 LINK…
A terrestrial perspective on using ex situ shocked zircons to date lunar impacts
Aaron J. Cavosie, Timmons M. Erickson, Nicholas E. Timms, Steven M. Reddy, Cristina Talavera, Stephanie D. Montalvo, Maya R. Pincus, Ryan J. Gibbon, and Desmond Moser Geology, First published on October 1, 2015, doi:10.1130/G37059.1 LINK
The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons
S. A. Stern, F. Bagenal, K. Ennico, G. R. Gladstone, W. M. Grundy, W. B. McKinnon, J. M. Moore, C. B. Olkin, J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, L. A. Young, T. Andert, J. Andrews,…
147Sm-143Nd and 176Lu-176Hf systematics of eucrite and angrite meteorites.
Bouvier, A., Blichert-Toft, J., Boyet, M. and Albarède, F. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12553 LINK “Comparative planetary geochemistry provides insight into the origin and evolutionary paths of planetary bodies in the inner solar system….
Predictions for impactor contamination on Ceres based on hypervelocity impact experiments
R. Terik Daly and Peter H. Schultz Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065601 Article first published online: 13 OCT 2015 LINK “New experiments predict that Ceres should be extensively contaminated with meteoritic debris derived from the…
Estimating the modal mineralogy of eucrite and diogenite meteorites using visible–near infrared reflectance spectroscopy.
Li, S. and Milliken, R. E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12513 LINK “Reliable quantitative mapping of minerals exposed on Vesta’s surface is crucial for understanding the crustal composition, petrologic evolution, and surface modification of…
Growing the terrestrial planets from the gradual accumulation of sub-meter sized objects
Harold F. Levison, Katherine A. Kretke, Kevin Walsh, William Bottke Accepted for PNAS arXiv:1510.02095 PDF (full text) abstract “Building the terrestrial planets has been a challenge for planet formation models. In particular, classical theories have…
