Precovery Observations of 3I/ATLAS from TESS Suggests Possible Distant ActivityOPEN ACCESS
Adina D. Feinstein, John W. Noonan, Darryl Z. Seligman submitted to AAS Journals, draft version: July 30, 2025Data behind the figures can be found here PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “3I/ATLAS is the third macroscopic interstellar object…
Exploring impact vapor plume reactions from asteroidal impacts: Monte Carlo simulations and implications for biomolecules synthesisOPEN ACCESS
Yoko Ochiai, Shigeru Ida , Daigo Shoji IcarusAvailable online 29 July 2025, 116736 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “During a hypervelocity impact, both the impactor and target materials evaporate, generating an impact vapor plume…
Experimental constraints on the shock history of CI chondrites and Ryugu grainsOPEN ACCESS
Toru Nakahashi, Masaaki Miyahara, Akira Yamaguchi, Takamichi Kobayashi, Hitoshi Yusa, Masashi Miyakawa, Naotaka Tomioka, Yuto Takaki, Takaaki Noguchi, Toru Matsumoto, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Yusuke Seto LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlight “C-type asteroids, which…
Space weathering on Vesta: Ion bombardment induced changes on HEDs in visible and infrared reflectanceOPEN ACCESS
Stefano Rubino, Francesca Zambon, Rosario Brunetto, Océane Barraud, Sébastien Besse, Ferenc Borondics, Cristian Carli, Jean-Philippe Combe, Kerri Donaldson-Hanna, Rachel Klima, Cateline Lantz, Giovanni Pratesi, Katrin Stephan, Federico Tosi Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online…
Amides from the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu: Nanoscale spectral and isotopic characterizations
L. G. Vacher, V. T. H. Phan, L. Bonal, M. Iskakova, O. Poch, P. Beck, E. Quirico, R. C. Ogliore MAPS, Version of Record online: 25 July 2025 LINK “C-type asteroids, such as asteroid (162173)…
Lucy Mission Search Plans for Activity around Its Jovian Trojan Flyby TargetsOPEN ACCESS
S. Alan Stern, Carly Howett, Neil Dello Russo, Harold A. Weaver, James F. Bell III, Dennis Reuter, Amy Simon, Hannah Kaplan, Keith Noll, John Spencer The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 7, Published 2025…
The Hera Space Mission in the Context of Small Near-Earth Asteroid Missions in the Past, Present and Future
Patrick Michel, Michael Küppers, Alan Fitzsimmons, Simon Green, Monica Lazzarin, Stephan Ulamec, Paul Abell, Seiji Sugita, Adriano Campo Bagatin, Benoit Carry, Sébastien Charnoz, Julia de León, Fabio Ferrari, Alain Hérique, Martin Jutzi, Özgür Karatekin, Tomas…
Traces of the oxygen isotope composition of ancient air in fossilized cosmic dustOPEN ACCESS
Fabian Zahnow, Martin D. Suttle, Marina Lazarov, Stefan Weyer, Tommaso Di Rocco, Luigi Folco & Andreas Pack Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 6, Article number: 577 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “As a sub-type of…
Abundant microchondrules in 162173 Ryugu suggest a turbulent origin for primitive asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Genge, Natasha V. Almeida, Matthias van Ginneken, Lewis Pinault, Tobias Salge, Penelope J. Wozniakiewicz, Hajime Yano & Steven J. Desch Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number: 6466 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Chondrules…
Spectroscopic Characterization of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: Water Ice in the ComaOPEN ACCESS
Bin Yang, Karen J. Meech, Michael Connelley, Jacqueline V. Keane submitted to ApJL PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, obtained with Gemini-S/GMOS and NASA IRTF/SpeX on 2025…
SF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)OPEN ACCESS
Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Devanshi Singh, Henry H. Hsieh, Ian Sullivan, R. Lynne Jones,Jacob A. Kurlander, Dmitrii Vavilov, Siegfried Eggl, Matthew Holman, Federica Spoto, Megan E. Schwamb, Eric J. Christensen, Wilson…
Thermal-IR Observations of (152830) Dinkinesh during the Lucy Mission FlybyOPEN ACCESS
Samuel L. Jackson, Joshua P. Emery, Benjamin Rozitis, Philip R. Christensen, John R. Spencer, Stefano Mottola, Victoria E. Hamilton, Carly J. A. Howett, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number…
Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Twin TelescopeOPEN ACCESS
R. de la Fuente Marcos, J. Licandro, M. R. Alarcon, M Serra-Ricart, J. de Leon, C. de la Fuente Marcos, G. Lombardi, A. Tejero, A. Cabrera-Lavers, S. Guerra Arencibia, I. Ruiz Cejudo Submitted to A&A…
The evolution of planetesimal reservoirs revealed by Fe-Ni isotope anomalies in differentiated meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Fridolin Spitzer, Timo Hopp, Christoph Burkhardt, Nicolas Dauphas, Thorsten Kleine Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 667, 1 October 2025, Version of Record 14 July 2025. LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Differentiated meteorites sample planetesimals…
Thermal and irradiation history of lunar meteorites by the 40Ar/39Ar technique: Dhofar 025, 309, 730, 733, 1442, Northwest Africa 6888, and Sayh al Uhaymir 449OPEN ACCESS
M. Trieloff, E.V. Korochantseva, A.I. Buikin, J. Hopp, A.V. Korochantsev Geochemistry, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 16 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We performed high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar dating of a suite of lunar…
Near-Discovery Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with the NASA Infrared Telescope FacilityOPEN ACCESS
Theodore Kareta (Villanova U.), Chansey Champagne (NAU), Lucas McClure (NAU), Joshua Emery (NAU), Benjamin N.L. Sharkey (UMD), James M. Bauer (UMD), Michael Connelly (UH/IRTF), John Rayner (UH/IRTF), Cristina Thomas (NAU), Vishnu Reddy (UAz), Megan Firgard…
Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLASOPEN ACCESS
Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling, Matthew J. Graham, Bryce T. Bolin, Mukremin Kilic, Gracyn Jewett, Carey M. Lisse, Carl Ingebretsen, M. Ryleigh Davis, Ian Wong Submitted to RNAAS, draft version July 17, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk
M. K. McClure, Merel van’t Hoff, Logan Francis, Edwin Bergin, Will R. M. Rocha, J. A. Sturm, Daniel Harsono, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, John H. Black, J. A. Noble, D. Qasim & E. Dartois Nature,…
The Kinematic Age of 3I/ATLAS and its Implications for Early Planet FormationOPEN ACCESS
Aster G. Taylor, Darryl Z. Seligman Submitted to ApJL, draft version July 14, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (28 August 2025): The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 990, Number 1 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The recent discovery…
X-SHOOTER Spectrum of Comet C/2025 N1: Insights into a Distant Interstellar VisitorOPEN ACCESS
A. Alvarez-Candal, J. L. Rizos, L. M. Lara, P. Santos-Sanz, P. J. Gutierrez, J. L. Ortiz, N. Morales, J. de León Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript, submitted as Letter to the Editor PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Comets…
Rare earth element nucleosynthetic anomalies and dust transport in the protoplanetary diskOPEN ACCESS
Justin Y. Hu, François L. H. Tissot, Ren T. C. Marquez, Oliver Shorttle, Cathie J. Clarke, Andrew D. Sellek, Nicolas Dauphas, Bruce L. A. Charlier, Ingo Leya, Reika Yokochi, Thomas J. Ireland, and Helen M….
Geology and Mars analog potential of the <2.7-billion-year-old Miralga impact structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, AustraliaOPEN ACCESS
Alec R. Brenner,, Aaron J. Cavosie, Jasmine Palma-Gomez, Joanna Li, Sophie-An Kingsbury Lee, and Roger R. Fu Science Advances9 Jul 2025Vol 11, Issue 28 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “North Pole Dome (Pilbara Craton, Western…
From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population modelOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Hopkins, Rosemary C. Dorsey, John C. Forbes, Michele T. Bannister, Chris J. Lintott, Brayden Leicester Submitted to ApJ Letters, Draft version July 9, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (1 September 2025): The Astrophysical…
A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH2-rich interstellar comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang Submitted…
Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLASOPEN ACCESS
Darryl Z. Seligman, Marco Micheli, Davide Farnocchia, Larry Denneau,John W. Noonan, Henry H. Hsieh, Toni Santana-Ros, John Tonry, Katie Auchettl, Luca Conversi, Maxime Devogèle, Laura Faggioli, Adina D. Feinstein, Marco Fenucci, Marin Ferrais, Tessa Frincke,…
Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrumOPEN ACCESS
Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass, Emmanuel Jehin, Michele T. Bannister, Erica Bufanda, Sophie E. Deam, Rosemary Dorsey, Marin Ferrais, Said Hmiddouch, Matthew M. Knight, Rosita Kokotanekova, Brayden Leicester, Michaël Marsset, Brian Murphy, Vincent Okoth, Ryan Ridden-Harper,…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical descriptionOPEN ACCESS
Bryce T. Bolin, Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling, Matthew J. Graham, Candace L. Gray, Carl Ingebretsen, Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Carey M. Lisse, Diana Roderick, Ahmed. M. Abdelaziz, Laura-May Abron, Michael W. Coughlin, Eslam Elhosseiny, Cheng-Han…
Rapid protoplanet formation in the outer Solar System recorded in a dunite from the carbonaceous chondrite reservoirOPEN ACCESS
B. G. Rider-Stokes, X. Zhao, S. L. Jackson, M. D. Suttle, I. A. Franchi, L. F. White, R. C. Greenwood, M. J. Whitehouse, L. Riches, M. Anand, B. Hoefnagels & M. M. Grady Communications Earth…
Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on EarthOPEN ACCESS
Duarte Branco, Sean N. Raymond, Pedro Machado Preprint submitted to Elsevier, 2 July 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (11 July 2025): Icarus, available online 11 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Cosmochemical studies have…
NASA’S Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids: Unraveling the History of the Outer Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll, John R. Spencer, Catherine B. Olkin & Thomas S. Statler Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 63, Published: 03 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Was Earth’s Water Acquired Locally during the Earliest Phases of the Solar System Formation?OPEN ACCESS
Lise Boitard-Crépeau, Cecilia Ceccarelli, Pierre Beck, Lionel Vacher, and Piero Ugliengo The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 987, Number 2, Published 2025 July 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of the terrestrial water remains…
Asteroids fail to retain cometary impact signaturesOPEN ACCESS
Sarah Joiret, Guillaume Avice, Ludovic Ferrière, Zoë M. Leinhardt, Simon Lock, Alexandre Mechineau, Sean N. Raymond preprint, Draft version July 2, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (31 July 2025): The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6,…
Surface Ages for the Sample Return Asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and ItokawaOPEN ACCESS
William F. Bottke, Alex J. Meyer, David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, Edward B. Bierhaus, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Rachael Hoover, Harold C. Connolly and Dante S. Lauretta The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 6, Published 2025…
The Flux of Differentiated Meteorites to the Earth
K. A. Lorenz, A. M. Abdrakhimov & D. A. Sadilenko Solar System Research, Volume 59, article number 64, Published: 30 June 2025 LINK “The meteorites of the SNC group are presumed to be of Martian…
Na, Ca carbonates in OSIRIS-REx samples: evidence for low-temperature, Na-bearing Brines on Bennu’s Parent BodyOPEN ACCESS
S.A. Singerling, F.E. Brenker, B. Tkalcec, S.S. Russell, T.J. Zega, T.J. McCoy, H.C. Connolly Jr., D.S. Lauretta Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 27 June 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We…
Reorientation and despinning of 4 Vesta formed the Divalia FossaeOPEN ACCESS
Hiu Ching Jupiter Cheng, Christian Klimczak, and Isamu Matsuyama Science Advances25 Jun 2025Vol 11, Issue 26 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Vesta, the only differentiated rocky protoplanet explored by a spacecraft, offers insight into early…
Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs — I. Composition of planetary building blocksOPEN ACCESS
E. Pacetti, E. Schisano, D. Turrini, C. P. Dullemond, S. Molinari, C. Walsh, S. Fonte, U. Lebreuilly, R. S. Klessen, P. Hennebelle, S. L. Ivanovski, R. Politi, D. Polychroni, P. Simonetti, L. Testi Accepted for…
Abiotic sugars in (162173) Ryugu and the primitive CI carbonaceous chondrite OrgueilOPEN ACCESS
Cornelia Meinert, Vanessa Leyva, Manuel Robert, Raphaël Pepino, Jana Bocková, preprint, 19 June 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “The unequal distribution of prebiotic organic compounds in meteorites—where amino acids and nucleobases are commonly detected but…
BLADE: An Automated Framework for Classifying Light Curves from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) Fireball DatabaseOPEN ACCESS
Elizabeth A. Silber, Vedant Sawal Preprint, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal (18 Jun 2025) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Fireballs (bolides) are high-energy luminous phenomena produced when meteoroids and small asteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere at…
Insights into pyroxene-dominated surfaces and implications for ongoing space exploration missionsOPEN ACCESS
B.G. Rider-Stokes, E. Branagan-Harris, K. Markus, J.F. Snape, S.L. Jackson, S.S. Russell, R.C. Greenwood, T.H. Burbine, M.J. Whitehouse, D.A. Rothery, L.F. White, M.M. Grady IcarusAvailable online 18 June 2025, 116713 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Olivine–gabbroic shergottites: A petrogenetic link between poikilitic and gabbroic shergottitesOPEN ACCESS
S. Benaroya, J. Gross MAPS, Version of Record online: 16 June 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Shergottites span a textural, mineralogical, and geochemical range, and finding links between the various petrologic and geochemical groups…
What is Mars (not) made of? A joint isotopic, geochemical and geophysical analysis
Christian Liebske, Amir Khan, Scott M. McLennan, Paolo A. Sossi IcarusAvailable online 14 June 2025 LINK “Highlights “The terrestrial planets are believed to have accreted from chondritic meteorites of widely varying composition. Yet, making planets…
Size–Frequency Distribution of Terrestrial Leftover Planetesimals and S-complex Implanted AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Rogerio Deienno, André Izidoro, David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke, Fernando Roig, and Simone Marchi The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 986, Number 2, 12 June 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The isotopic composition of meteorites linked…
Origin of gabbroic shergottite Northwest Africa 6963 from an ~180-million-year-old flood basalt province on Mars
James M. D. Day, Hunter R. Edwards, Kim Tait, Carl B. Agee MAPS, Version of Record online: 10 June 2025 LINK “To understand chemical variability within individual martian meteorites, we report major, minor, trace, and…
Meteorite-common amino acid induces clay exfoliation and abiotic compartment formationOPEN ACCESS
Orr Rose Bezaly, Annemieke Petrignani & Helen E. King Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 6, Article number: 435 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Clay surfaces have been invoked as crucial components in the origin of…
Germanium isotope fractionation during evaporation from metal and sulfide melts: Implications for volatile element loss from planetary materialsOPEN ACCESS
Elias Wölfer, Christian J. Renggli, Christoph Burkhardt, Thorsten Kleine Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 30 May 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Ge elemental and isotopic composition of planetary materials holds essential clues on…
Experimental simulations of space weathering on pentlanditeOPEN ACCESS
L. C. Chaves, M. S. Thompson, C. A. Dukes, M. J. Loeffler, M. F. Martinez-Motta, H. Vannier, B. H. N. Horgan, N. Smith, K. Ardrey MAPS, Version of Record online: 31 May 2025 LINK (OPEN…
Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW1OPEN ACCESS
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vereš, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend submitted to ApJLPDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only…
A whole-scale volatile-depleted lunar interior
Wei Dai, Frédéric Moynier, Zheng-Yu Long, Linru Fang, James M. D. Day, Marine Paquet and Julien Siebert PNAS, Vol. 122 | No. 22, May 27, 2025 LINK “The extent of moderately volatile elements (MVE) depletion…
The shaping of terrestrial planets by late accretions
Simone Marchi & Jun Korenaga NatureReview, Volume 641, pages 1111–1120, Published: 28 May 2025 LINK “Terrestrial planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—formed by the accretion of smaller objects. The Earth was probably the latest terrestrial planet…
Silicate–sulfide interaction within quenched melts of space weathered Ryugu grainsOPEN ACCESS
Sylvain Laforet, Hugues Leroux, Corentin Le Guillou, Maya Marinova, Adrien Néri, Adrien Teurtrie, Francisco de la Peña, Damien Jacob, Alexandre Fadel, David Troadec MAPS, Version of Record online: 26 May 2025 LINK(OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Identifying LL Chondrite Near-Earth Asteroids Using LL Chondrite Reflectance SpectraOPEN ACCESS
Pengyue Wang (王鹏越), Edward Cloutis, Ye Su (苏烨), and Man-To Hui (许文韬) The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 985, Number 1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Most near-Earth objects are thought to originate from the collisional…
Origin of moderately volatile elements in Earth inferred from mass-dependent Ge isotope variations among chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Elias Wölfer, Christoph Burkhardt, Francis Nimmo, Thorsten Kleine Accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The bulk silicate Earth (BSE) is depleted in moderately volatile elements, indicating Earth formed from…
Sample Return Missions: Rosetta Stones Returned from the First Small Bodies in the Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Tomoki Nakamura, Cecile Engrand, Michael Zolensky, Victoria E. Hamilton & Abigail A. Fraeman Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 44, Published: 12 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “It is now possible to…
Space weathering on the lunar nearside and farside constrained from Si isotopesOPEN ACCESS
Hui-Yan Zhang, Hui-Min Yu, Hao-Lan Tang, Yu-Chao Lin, Zicong Xiao, Lin Yang, Jin-Ting Kang, Ji Shen, Liping Qin & Fang Huang Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number: 4248 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Over long…
Textural coarsening as the cause for impact-melt like plagioclase crystal size distributions and subtle layering in high-Al basalt 14053OPEN ACCESS
Stu Webb, Clive R. Neal, Bridget Guiza, James M. D. Day MAPS, Version of Record online: 07 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “High-Al Apollo 14 basalt 14053 has been identified as an endogenous…
Differentiated planetesimals record differing sources of sulfur in inner and outer solar system materials
Elizabeth A. Heiny, Edward M. Stolper, and John M. Eiler PNAS, May 2, 2025, 122 (18) e2418198122 LINK “The isotope anomalies of noncarbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) extraterrestrial materials provide a framework for tracing the…
Isotopic Composition of the Noble Gases and of Some Other Elements in the Sun: A Review and a Discussion of Open Questions
Rainer Wieler, Donald S. Burnett ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, April 29, 2025 LINK “The isotopic composition of highly volatile elements (noble gases, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) in the solar accretion disk is largely unconstrained…
The stable Zr isotope composition of the martian mantleOPEN ACCESS
Ninna K. Jensen, Zhengbin Deng, Martin Bizzarro Chemical Geology, available online 26 April 2025, 12281 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report high-precision stable Zr isotope data for a wide selection of martian meteorites using…
The cosmochemistry of planetary systems
Martin Bizzarro, Anders Johansen & Caroline Dorn Nature Reviews Chemistry, Review Article, Published: 28 April 2025 LINK “Planets form and obtain their compositions from the leftover material present in protoplanetary disks of dust and gas…
Strong Toroidal Recirculation Zones at the Inner Dust Rim as the Origin of Meteoric Chondrules and Calcium-Aluminum InclusionsOPEN ACCESS
Peter Todd Williams Draft version April 29, 2025, submitted to ApJL PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We hypothesize strong (transonic) twin toroidal recirculation zones above and below the accretion disk midplane, rather close-in to the protosun, to…
Mass-independent fractionation of oxygen isotopes during high-temperature condensation in cosmochemical plasmas
Nathan Asset, Marc Chaussidon, Guillaume Lombardi, Johan Villeneuve, Romain Tartèse, Smail Mostefaoui, and François Robert PNAS, April 28, 2025, 122 (18) LINK “SignificanceThe origins of oxygen mass-independent isotope fractionations in solar system materials have remained…
Near-infrared spectral variation in Ryugu particles and implication for rapid space weathering by solar UV radiationOPEN ACCESS
S. Furukawa, T. Okada, K. Hatakeda, R. Kanemaru, K. Yogata, T. Yada, M. Abe, T. Usui, C. Pilorget, V. Hamm, R. Brunetto, D. Loizeau, L. Riu, T. Le Pivert-Jolivet, S. Sasaki, Y. Egashira, T. Hiroi,…
Magnetization of Iron Meteorites up to the Meter in Size as Possible Analogs for Asteroid PsycheOPEN ACCESS
Clara Maurel, Elise Clavé, Jérôme Gattacecca, Minoru Uehara, Elias N. Mansbach, Timothy J. McCoy, Benjamin P. Weiss JGR PlanetsFirst published: 23 April 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite paleomagnetic studies indicate planetesimal generated magnetic…
A small core in Vesta inferred from Dawn’s observationsOPEN ACCESS
R. S. Park, A. I. Ermakov, A. S. Konopliv, A. T. Vaughan, N. Rambaux, B. G. Bills, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, R. R. Fu, S. A. Jacobson, S. T. Stewart & M. J. Toplis Nature Astronomy,…
Experimental investigations of mineral-organic chondritic analogs under hydrothermal conditions: implications for carbonaceous asteroids
Coline Serra, Olivier Grauby, Daniel Ferry, Fabrice Duvernay, Grégoire Danger, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Vassilissa Vinogradoff Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 22 April 2025 LINK “The occurrence of hydroxylated minerals in carbonaceous chondrites…
Aqueous Alteration of Forsterite Glass in PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Yudai Kobayashi, Tomoko Ikeda-Fukazawa ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, April 19, 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “To investigate the aqueous alteration mechanisms of forsterite glass in planetesimals, molecular dynamics calculations were performed using two-phase…
A reconstruction of the H2O and F contents of the Erg Cech 002 parent body
Liam D. Peterson, Megan E. Newcombe, Conel M.O’D. Alexander, Jianhua Wang, Sune G. Nielsen Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 17 April 2025 LINK “Erg Cech 002 (EC 002) is an andesitic…
Melting experiments of an L6 ordinary chondrite: Implications for the formation of alkali-rich achondrites
S. Iannini Lelarge, M. Masotta, L. Folco, T. Ubide, M.D. Suttle, L. Pittarello Geochemistry, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 10 April 2025 LINK “Highlights “We conducted high-pressure (1 GPa) melting experiments (1100–1400 °C) on the equilibrated…
Petrologic evidence for core sulfur degassing in partially differentiated planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Shu-Zhou Wang, Ai-Cheng Zhang, Tian-Ran Trina Du, Jiani Chen, Yuanyun Wen, and Xiancai Lu Science Advances11 Apr 2025Vol 11, Issu LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Partial differentiation hypothesis is a scenario for interpreting the internal…
A Pyroxenite mantle on Mercury? Experimental insights from enstatite chondrite melting at pressures up to 5 GPaOPEN ACCESS
Asmaa Boujibar, Kevin Righter, Emmanuel Fontaine, Max Collinet, Sarah Lambart, Larry R. Nittler, Kellye M. Pando IcarusAvailable online 11 April 2025 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Enstatite chondrites are potential source material for the accretion…
Overview of the findings for samples returned from Ryugu and implications for early Solar System processes
Monica M. Grady, M. Ito, R. C. Greenwood, A. Yamaguchi, T. H. Burbine, M. Anand & V. Debaille Nature Astronomy LINK “The Hayabusa2 spacecraft brought samples to Earth from asteroid (162173) Ryugu in December 2020….
The source of hydrogen in earth’s building blocksOPEN ACCESS
Thomas J. Barrett, James F.J. Bryson, Kalotina Geraki IcarusAvailable online 3 April 2025, 116588 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Despite being pivotal to the habitability of our planet, the process by which Earth gained…
Porphyritic olivine chondrules with enstatite chondrite isotopic composition as a main building block of Earth
Yves Marrocchi, Tahar Hammouda, Maud Boyet, Guillaume Avice, Alessandro Morbidelli Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 659, 1 June 2025, 119337Available online 30 March 2025, Version of Record 30 March 2025 LINK “Highlights “The nature and…
The atmospheric entry of cometary impactorsOPEN ACCESS
Richard J Anslow, Amy Bonsor, Zoe R Todd, Robin Wordsworth, Auriol S P Rae, Catriona H McDonald, Paul B Rimmer accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Cometary impacts play an important role in…
Evidence of solar wind irradiation on mineral grains embedded in matrix of the Northwest Africa 801 CR chondrite
Sohei Wada, Ken-ichi Bajo, Tomoya Obase, Hisayoshi Yurimoto MAPS, Version of Record online: 31 March 2025 LINK “Solar wind (SW) is preserved in meteorites as abundant solar noble gases. We performed in situ 4He isotope…
Classifying meteorites with MetNet: A deep learning approach using reflectance spectroscopy
Roshan Nath, Soham Mali, Denesh K., Neha Panwar, Abhishek J. Verma, Avadh Kumar, Ramakant R. Mahajan, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, M. E. Varela, Shuhrat A. Ehgamberdiev, Tvisha Kapadia, Neeraj Srivastava MAPS, Version of Record online: 27…
Highly Heterogeneous Parent Body of the Rare Andesitic Erg Chech 002 Meteorite Revealed by the Revisited Mn–Cr Isotopic SystematicsOPEN ACCESS
Bing Yang, Runlian Pang, Qing Wang, Anning Zhang, Wei Du and Liping Qin The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 3 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), an andesitic meteorite, has…
An experimental study of trace element partitioning into troilite during iron meteorite crystallizationOPEN ACCESS
Nancy L. Chabot, Colin D. Hamill, Evangela E. Shread, Richard D. Ash, Catherine M. Corrigan MAPS, Version of Record online: 25 March 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Troilite is a common phase in iron…
Protoplanetary cores drove chondrule formationOPEN ACCESS
Mohamad Ali-Dib, Craig Walton resubmitted to MNRAS in February 2025 after revision (preprint 21 Mars 2025) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Chondrules are small spherical objects that formed at high temperatures early in the history of the…
An overview of the petrography and petrology of particles from aggregate sample from asteroid BennuOPEN ACCESS
Harold C. Connolly Jr, Dante S. Lauretta, Timothy J. McCoy, Sara S. Russell, Pierre Haenecour, Anjani Polit, Jessica J. Barnes, Thomas J. Zega, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Kevin Righter, Guy Libourel, Marc Portail, Vincent Guigoz,…
Comparison of the earliest NC and CC planetesimals: Evidence from ungrouped iron meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
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L. G. Vacher, V. T. H. Phan, L. Bonal, M. Iskakova, O. Poch, P. Beck, E. Quirico, R. C. Ogliore Submitted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science – December 26, 2024 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The detection…
A Pre-flyby View on the Origin of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, a Target of the NASA Lucy MissionOPEN ACCESS
Simone Marchi, David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke, Josef Ďurech and Harold F. Levison The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 3 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) PDF 2 (OPEN ACCESS) “The NASA Lucy…
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Planetesimal Impact Vapor Plumes and Nebular Shocks form Chondritic MixturesOPEN ACCESS
Sarah T. Stewart, Simon J. Lock, Philip J. Carter, Erik J. Davies, Michail I. Petaev, Stein B. Jacobsen draft, accepted March 7, 2025, submitted to The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update: The Planetary…
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Impact-induced ultra-high melting point oldhamite discovered in Chang’E-6 lunar soilOPEN ACCESS
Chen Li, Yang Li, Ronghua Pang, Jiyang Xie, Zixuan Han, Yuanyun Wen, Xiaojia Zeng, Li Wang, Ziyan Qin, Jie Yang, Wanbiao Hu, Jianzhong Liu, Xiongyao Li & Wenhui Ma Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number:…
Measuring the Effects of Regolith Porosity on Mid-IR Spectra of the Allende MeteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Lonnie D. Dausend, Audrey C. Martin and Joshua P. Emery The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 3, Published: 4 March 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mid-infrared (MIR; 5–35 μm) spectroscopy of laboratory meteorites…
Genesis and timing of KREEP-free lunar Mg-suite magmatism indicated by the first norite meteorite Arguin 002OPEN ACCESS
Zilong Wang, Wei Tian, Wei-RZ Wang, Tabb C. Prissel, Yankun Di, Yuqi Qian, Ping-Ping Liu, Wenzhe Fa & Ao Su Communications Earth & EnvironmentVolume 6, article number 170, Published: 01 March 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…
Solar System Elemental Abundances from the Solar Photosphere and CI-ChondritesOPEN ACCESS
K. Lodders, M. Bergemann & H. Palme Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 23, Published: 24 February 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Solar photospheric abundances and CI-chondrite compositions are reviewed and updated to…
The refractory-to-ice ratio in comet 67P: Implications on the composition of the comet-forming region of the protoplanetary disk
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The mystery of the missing mantle problem and insights from spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
B.G. Rider-Stokes, S.L. Jackson, T.J. Burbine, R.C. Greenwood, E.M. MacLennan, L.F. White, S.S. Russell, M. Anand, M.M. Grady IcarusAvailable online 11 February 2025, 116506 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Differentiation of planetesimals results in…
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A primitive asteroid that lived fast and died young sampled by a xenolith in the Cold Bokkeveld CM2 carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Martin R. Lee, Cameron J. Floyd, Robin Haller, Sammy Griffin MAPS, Version of Record online: 04 February 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Xenoliths in carbonaceous chondrites include lithologies that are unrepresented in the meteorite…
The Gefion Asteroid Family: Parent Body Puzzles and Ordinary Chondrite PiecesOPEN ACCESS
Allison McGraw, Vishnu Reddy, Juan A Sanchez Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Published: 24 January 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Asteroid families provide critical clues to the nature of their original parent…
Long-term Spectral Monitoring of Active Asteroid (6478) Gault: Implications for the H Chondrite Parent BodyOPEN ACCESS
Adam Battle, Vishnu Reddy, Juan A. Sanchez, Neil Pearson, Benjamin N. L. Sharkey and Theodore Kareta The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 2, Published: 31 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Active asteroid…
Low thermal inertia of (162173) Ryugu a result of horizontal cracks in bouldersOPEN ACCESS
Maximilian Hamm, Moritz Strauß, Matthias Grott, Jörg Knollenberg, Robert Luther, Jens Biele, Hiroki Senshu IcarusAvailable online 30 January 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Observations of the diurnal variations of the surface temperature of…
The solar system Fe/Mg ratioOPEN ACCESS
D. S. Burnett, A. J. G. Jurewicz, D. S. Woolum, Y. Guan, V. S. Heber, R. Hervig, M. Humayun, K. D. McKeegan, L. R. Nittler, C. T. Olinger, D. B. Reisenfeld, J. Wang MAPS, Version…
Radon on Mars and the Moon derived from Martian and lunar meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Frédéric Girault, Ludovic Ferrière, Carine Sadaka, Íñigo de Loyola Chacartegui Rojo, Rémi Losno, Frédéric Moynier, Frédéric Perrier & Pierre-Yves Meslin Scientific Reports, Volume 15, Article number: 3517 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The radioactive gas…
Timescales of Solar System Formation Based on Al–Ti Isotope Correlation by Supernova EjectaOPEN ACCESS
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Insights on the volcanic and impact histories of the lunar nearside from the petrology, geochemistry, and geochronology of the Calcalong Creek lunar regolith breccia meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
B. H. Oliveira, J. F. Snape, R. Tartèse, J. F. Pernet-Fisher, D. van Acken, M. J. Whitehouse, K. H. Joy MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Calcalong…
Benford’s Law: applications to chondrules and refractory inclusionsOPEN ACCESS
Jake Grodner, Alan E. Rubin Discover Space, Volume 129, article number 2, 22 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Benford’s Law is a scale- and base-invariant probability distribution wherein smaller numerals occur more often…
Iron and copper sulfides in asteroid (162173) Ryugu: Formation conditions and a comparison to the CI and CY chondritesOPEN ACCESS
C. S. Harrison, A. J. King, R. H. Jones, S. S. Russell, T. Nakamura, H. Yurimoto, T. Noguchi, R. Okazaki, H. Yabuta, H. Naraoka, K. Sakamoto, S. Tachibana, T. Yada, M. Nishimura, A. Nakato, A….
Implications of Differentiated Late Accretion for the Volatile Inventory of the Bulk Silicate EarthOPEN ACCESS
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A chondritic Martian mantle revealed by the heavy noble gas composition of the chassignite NWA 8694
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Petrology and shock history of hybrid lunar feldspathic–troctolitic breccia Northwest Africa 11515
Y. Li, P. J. A. McCausland, R. L. Flemming, G. R. Osinski MAPS, Version of Record online: 09 January 2025 LINK “Lunar impact breccia meteorites contain clasts from unknown lunar regions, including areas not studied…
Metal differentiation on asteroids recorded in Zn and Fe isotopic signatures of ureilitesOPEN ACCESS
S.M. Chernonozhkin, L. Pittarello, G. Hublet, S. Weyer, I. Horn, P. Claeys, V. Debaille, F. Vanhaecke, S. Goderis Geochemical Perspectives Letters, V.33, 38–43, Published 03 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Ureilites are meteorites…
Constraining the history of water and climate on Mars through light element stable isotope analysis of volatiles in returned martian samplesOPEN ACCESS
Monica M. Grady PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404260121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Much has been learned about Mars through data returned from space missions and analyses of martian meteorites. There are, however,…
What we can learn about Mars from the magnetism of returned samplesOPEN ACCESS
Benjamin P. Weiss, Elias N. Mansbach, Clara Maurel, Courtney J. Sprain, Nicholas L. Swanson-Hysell, and Wyn Williams PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404259121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Red Planet is a magnetic…
The value of returning a sample of the Martian atmosphereOPEN ACCESS
Timothy D. Swindle, Andreas Pack, Susanne P. Schwenzer, and Edward D. Young PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404258121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The elemental and isotopic abundances of major species in the Martian…
Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover MissionOPEN ACCESS
Christopher D. K. Herd, Tanja Bosak, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Lisa E. Mayhew, David L. Shuster, Sandra Siljeström, Justin I. Simon, Benjamin P. Weiss, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Maria-Paz Zorzano, Justin N. Maki, Kenneth A. Farley,…
Organic matter and biomarkers: Why are samples required?OPEN ACCESS
Mark A. Sephton, Andrew Steele, Frances Westall, and Florence Schubotz PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404256121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The search for evidence of past prebiotic or biotic activity on Mars will…
A tale of two planets: Disparate evolutionary models for Mars inferred from radiogenic isotope compositions of Martian meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Lars E. Borg and Thomas S. Kruijer PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404257121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The radiogenic isotopic compositions of basaltic Martian meteorites (shergottites) and clinopyroxene/olivine cumulate meteorites (nakhlite/chassignites) are used…
Mars Sample Return: From collection to curation of samples from a habitable worldOPEN ACCESS
Francis M. McCubbin, Kenneth A. Farley, Andrea D. Harrington, Aurore Hutzler, and Caroline L. Smith PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e24042531 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “NASA’s Mars 2020 mission has initiated collection of…
Fundamental constraints and questions from the study of martian meteorites and the need for returned samplesOPEN ACCESS
Arya Udry, Amanda M. Ostwald, James M.D. Day, and Lydia J. Hallis PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404254121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Physical materials from planetary bodies are crucial for understanding fundamental processes…
Perspectives on Mars Sample Return: A critical resource for planetary science and explorationOPEN ACCESS
Harry Y. McSween Jr., Victoria E. Hamilton, and Kenneth A. Farley PNAS, January 6, 2025, 122 (2) e2404248121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mars Sample Return (MSR) has been the highest flagship mission priority in…
Discovery of carbonaceous chondritic fragment in Chang’e-5 regolith samples
Linxi Li, Hejiu Hui, Sen Hu, Qiuli Li, Yi Chen, Wei Yang, Guoqiang Tang, Lihui Jia, Xiaoguang Li, Lixin Gu, Fuyuan Wu Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 January 2025 LINK “Highlights “Lunar…
Petrologic characterization of CO3.0 chondrites: Implications for 60Fe-60Ni analysesOPEN ACCESS
Myriam Telus, Tyler D. Wickland, Kyle Kim, Steven Simon MAPS, Version of Record online: 02 January 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Samples in which Fe and Ni isotopes have not been disturbed by secondary…
Early Solar System Turbulence Constrained by High Oxidation States in the Oldest Noncarbonaceous PlanetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Teng Ee Yap, Konstantin Batygin and François L. H. Tissot The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Early solar system (SS) planetesimals constitute the parent bodies of most meteorites…
Ureilite precursor formation from an isotopically and chemically heterogeneous, isolated protoplanetary disk reservoirOPEN ACCESS
Pascal M. Kruttasch, Karen Ziegler, Julian-Christopher Storck, Nicolas D. Greber, Aryavart Anand, Klaus Mezger Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 652, 15 February 2025, 119179 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Isotopic and chemical compositions of…
Equilibrium condensation of a solar composition gas, revisited: The anorthite effect
Glenn J. MacPherson, Michail I. Petaev Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 31 December 2024 LINK “New full equilibrium condensation calculations for a hot gas of solar composition show that anorthite condenses prior to forsterite at…
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Two isotopically distinct populations of refractory inclusions in the EHa3 chondrite Sahara 97072 – Significance for understanding the evolution of the CAI-formation regionOPEN ACCESS
Samuel Ebert, Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot, Addi Bischoff Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 27 December 2024 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The nature of isotopic differences between ‘normal’ Ca,Al-rich inclusions…
Methylene-to-methyl ratio variability in Ryugu samples: Clues to a heterogeneous aqueous alteration
Zélia Dionnet, Zahia Djouadi, Lukas Delaye, Lucas Caron, Rosario Brunetto, Alice Aléon-Toppani, Cateline Lantz, Stefano Rubino, Donia Baklouti, Tomoki Nakamura, Ferenc Borondics, Christophe Sandt, Megumi Matsumoto, Kana Amano, Tomoyo Morita, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Takaaki Noguchi, Ryuji…
The curious case of the missing mantle: How carbonaceous chondrites may confound the spectral identification of partially differentiated asteroids
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Tidally driven remelting around 4.35 billion years ago indicates the Moon is oldOPEN ACCESS
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Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatilesOPEN ACCESS
Meike Fischer, Stefan T. M. Peters, Daniel Herwartz, Paul Hartogh, Tommaso Di Rocco, and Andreas Pack PNASDecember 16, 2024121 (52) e2321070121 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Moon formed 4.5 Ga ago through a collision…
The extent of liquid immiscibility in planetesimal coresOPEN ACCESS
G.D. Bromiley, M. Varnam, H. Terasaki, T. Komabayashi, J. Barosch Geochemical Perspectives Letters, V33Published: 26 November 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report results of experiments in the system Fe0.9Ni0.1, S, P, C, O,…
Remnants of a lost Planetesimal: Searching for the Angrite parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
B.G. Rider-Stokes, S.L. Jackson, T.H. Burbine, L.F. White, R.C. Greenwood, E.M. MacLennan, M. Anand, A. Yamaguchi, M.M. Grady IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 9 December 2024 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “It is…
JWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources
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Incompatible trace element geochemistry of the anorthositic achondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 15118: Relation to diogenites and the Vestan magma oceanOPEN ACCESS
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Comment on “Did the terrestrial planets of the Solar System form by pebble accretion?”OPEN ACCESS
PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Anders Johansen, Peter Olson, Zachary Sharp “Morbidelli, Kleine & Nimmo (2024) (MKN) recently published a critical analysis on whether the terrestrial planets in the Solar System formed by rapid pebble accretion or…
Chondrule formation indicates protracted growth of giant planet cores
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Grain Size Effects on Visible and Near-infrared (0.35–2.5 μm) Laboratory Spectra of Rare Meteorite ClassesOPEN ACCESS
K. I. Ridenhour, V. Reddy, A. Battle, D. Cantillo, N. C. Pearson and J. A. Sanchez The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 5, Number 11 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Linking near-Earth asteroids to associated meteorites…
Zirconium isotope composition indicatess-process depletion in samples returned from asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Maria Schönbächler, Manuela A. Fehr, Tetsuya Yokoyama, Ikshu Gautam, Nao Nakanishi, Yoshinari Abe, Jérôme Aléon, Conel Alexander, Sachiko Amari, Yuri Amelin, Ken-ichi Bajo, Martin Bizzarro, Audrey Bouvier, Richard W. Carlson, Marc Chaussidon, Byeon-Gak Choi, Nicolas…
Timing of crustal reworking on Mars inferred from the Lu-Hf isotope systematics of igneous clasts in NWA 7533OPEN ACCESS
Ninna K. Jensen, Alexander A. Nemchin, Gavin Kenny, Martin J. Whitehouse, James N. Connelly, Takashi Mikouchi, Martin Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 19 November 2024 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Understanding the Effects of Micrometeoroid Bombardment on Graphite-rich Mercury Analogs through Laboratory Experiments and Electron Microscopy AnalysisOPEN ACCESS
Nicolas Bott, Michelle S. Thompson, Mark J. Loeffler, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden and Francis M. McCubbin The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 5, Number 11, Published: 18 November 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Space weathering…
Sodium carbonates on Ryugu as evidence of highly saline water in the outer Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Toru Matsumoto, Takaaki Noguchi, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Megumi Matsumoto, Toru Yada, Masayuki Uesugi, Masahiro Yasutake, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Hayato Yuzawa, Takuji Ohigashi & Tohru Araki Nature Astronomy, Published: 18 November 2024 LINK (OPEN…
Did the terrestrial planets of the Solar System form by pebble accretion?OPEN ACCESS
Alessandro Morbidelli, Thorsten Kleine, Francis Nimmo In press as a Frontier paper in Earth and Planetary Science Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The dominant accretion process leading to the formation of the terrestrial planets of the…
Meteoritical Bulletin updates
- Minfeng 005 (Diogenite-pm)
- Oued Tilemsi 003 (Lunar (troct. anorth. melt breccia))
- Northwest Africa 18440 (Pallasite)
- Northwest Africa 18438 (Howardite)
- Northwest Africa 18446 (Howardite)
- Dhofar 2127 (CK5)
- Northwest Africa 18431 (CV3)
- Northwest Africa 18432 (CVred3)
- Northwest Africa 18177 (L3.05)
- Northwest Africa 18295 (Ureilite)
- Northwest Africa 18292 (CR2)
- Northwest Africa 18290 (CM2)
- Northwest Africa 18289 (Mesosiderite)
- Oguîlet Merzoug 001 (Pallasite, PMG)
- Northwest Africa 18271 (Eucrite-br)
- Northwest Africa 18268 (Winonaite)
- Northwest Africa 18266 (Mesosiderite-A3)
- Northwest Africa 18258 (CV3)
- Northwest Africa 18262 (Howardite)
- Northwest Africa 18240 (Angrite)
