Painted Stone: Asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, by Alex Parker
VIDEO (FULL HD) LINK This animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with colors illustrating the compositional diversity measured by the SDSS five-color…
The elemental composition of the Sun I. The intermediate mass elements Na to Ca
Pat Scott, Nicolas Grevesse, Martin Asplund, A. Jacques Sauval, Karin Lind, Yoichi Takeda, Remo Collet, Regner Trampedach, Wolfgang Hayek PDF LINK LINK The elemental composition of the Sun II. The iron group elements Sc to…
Defining the Flora Family: Orbital Properties, Reflectance Properties and Age
Melissa J. Dykhuis, Lawrence Molnar, Samuel J. Van Kooten, Richard Greenberg Icarus Available online 16 September 2014 LINK
Fragmentation of colliding planetesimals with water content
Thomas I. Maindl, Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Schäfer, Roland Speith Submitted on 8 Sep 2014 Submitted to IAU Symposium 310 Proceedings 4 pages, 2 figures PDF LINK LINK We investigate the outcome of collisions of Ceres-sized…
Composition, Mineralogy, and Porosity of Multiple Asteroid Systems from Visible and Near-infrared Spectral Data
Sean S. Lindsay, Franck Marchis, Joshua P. Emery, J. Emilio Enriquez, Marcelo Assafin Accepted to Icarus Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arXiv:1409.0359 PDF LINK LINK We provide a taxonomic and compositional characterization of Multiple Asteroid…
Samarium–neodymium chronology and rubidium–strontium systematics of an Allende calcium–aluminum-rich inclusion with implications for 146Sm half-life
N.E. Marks, L.E. Borg, I.D. Hutcheon, B. Jacobsen, R.N. Clayton Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 405, 1 November 2014, Pages 15–24 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.017 Available online 29 August 2014 LINK
Impact chemistry of methanol: Implications for volatile evolution on icy satellites and dwarf planets, and cometary delivery to the Moon
Yasuhito Sekine, Hidenori Genda, Yuta Muto, Seiji Sugita, Toshihiko Kadono, Takafumi Matsui Icarus Available online 27 August 2014 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.08.034 LINK
Sequential analysis of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples for the determination of their origin
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Record of the ancient martian hydrosphere and atmosphere preserved in zircon from a martian meteorite
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The Case of the Missing Ceres Family
Andrew S. Rivkin Erik Asphaug, William F. Bottke Icarus DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.08.007 available online 23 August 2014 LINK
Selecting asteroids for a targeted spectroscopic survey
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Solar system chemical abundances corrected for systematics
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Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft
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Records of the Moon-forming impact and the 470 Ma disruption of the L chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt from U-Pb apatite ages of Novato (L6)
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More chips off of Asteroid (4) Vesta: characterization of eight Vestoids and their HED meteorite analogs
Paul S. Hardersen, Vishnu Reddy, Rachel Roberts, Amy Mainzer Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, arXiv:1408.2731 Icarus, accepted for publication, August 12, 2014 PDF-LINK
Decline of the lunar core dynamo
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Chromium Valences in Ureilite Olivine and Implications for Ureilite Petrogenesis
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ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres
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Potential for analysis of carbonaceous matter on Mars using Raman spectroscopy
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Water Delivery and Giant Impacts in the ‘Grand Tack’ Scenario
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Fossil records of high level of 60Fe in chondrules from unequilibrated chondrites
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The Chemical Composition of the Sun from Helioseismic and Solar Neutrino Data
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Correlated accretion ages and ε54Cr of meteorite parent bodies and the evolution of the solar nebula
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Space weathering simulations through controlled growth of iron nanoparticles on olivine
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Chelyabinsk meteorite explains unusual spectral properties of Baptistina Asteroid Family
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Investigation of Pyridine Carboxylic Acids in CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites: Potential Precursor Molecules for Ancient Coenzymes
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The abundance and stability of “water” in type 1 and 2 carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM and CR)
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Highly siderophile elements in Earth’s mantle as a clock for the Moon-forming impact
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Carbon-rich Planet Formation in a Solar Composition Disk
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The nature of Earth’s building blocks as revealed by calcium isotopes
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Space weathering of silicate regoliths with various FeO contents: New insights from laser irradiation experiments and theoretical spectral simulations
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Orbit and Bulk Density of the OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu
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Chemodynamical Deuterium Fractionation in the Early Solar Nebula: The Origin of Water on Earth and in Asteroids and Comets
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How Earth was watered Recent findings have wide implications in study of extrasolar life
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Inheritance of solar short- and long-lived radionuclides from molecular clouds and the unexceptional nature of the solar system
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A criterion to classify asteroids and comets based on the orbital parameters
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Formation and Physical Properties of Asteroids
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Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy
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Alpha-decay of 184Os revealed by radiogenic 180W in meteorites: Half life determination and viability as geochronometer
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Fe-Ni and Al-Mg isotope records in UOC chondrules: Plausible stellar source of 60Fe and other short-lived nuclides in the early Solar System
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Localized sources of water vapour on the dwarf planet (1) Ceres
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Vanadium isotopic difference between the silicate Earth and meteorites
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On the Injection of Short-lived Radionuclides from a Supernova into the Solar Nebula: Constraints from the Oxygen Isotopes
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Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Components in Chondrites: Search for Processed Materials in Young Solar Systems and Comets
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I-Xe ages of Campo del Cielo silicates as a record of the complex early history of the IAB parent body
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Origin and age of the earliest Martian crust from meteorite NWA 7533
Humayun M et al. (2013) Nature 503, 513–516 (28 November 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12764 LINK
Major and trace elements of zircons from basaltic eucrites: Implications for the formation of zircons on the eucrite parent body
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Composition and petrology of HED polymict breccias: The regolith of (4) Vesta
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Dawn; the Vesta–HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites, diogenites, and howardites
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Planetary science: A chunk of ancient Mars
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Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap Asteroids II: Probable and Plausible Parent Bodies; Primitive and Differentiated
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Instrumental neutron activation analyses of the most Earth-like meteorites
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Shock synthesis of amino acids from impacting cometary and icy planet surface analogues
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Transmission infrared spectra (2-25 microns) of carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM, CV-CK, CR, C2 ungrouped): mineralogy, water, and asteroidal processes
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Magnesium diffusion in plagioclase: Dependence on composition, and implications for thermal resetting of the 26Al–26Mg early solar system chronometer
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Impact Theory Gets Whacked
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No Martian soil component in shergottite meteorites
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Mineralogy, reflectance spectra, and physical properties of the Chelyabinsk LL5 chondrite – insight into shock-induced changes in asteroid regoliths
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Vesta, vestoids, and the HED meteorites: Interconnections and differences based on Dawn Framing Camera observations
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Vesta and extensively melted asteroids: Why HED meteorites are probably not from Vesta
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Unique chemistry of a diamond-bearing pebble from the Libyan Desert Glass strewnfield, SW Egypt: Evidence for a shocked comet fragment
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Biomass preservation in impact melt ejecta
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Hydrogen Isotopes in Lunar Volcanic Glasses and Melt Inclusions Reveal a Carbonaceous Chondrite Heritage
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The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets
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Uranium isotope compositions of the basaltic angrite meteorites and the chronological implications for the early Solar System
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Stardust in meteorites
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Cosmochemical evidence for astrophysical processes during the formation of our solar system
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