Detection of local H2O exposed at the surface of Ceres
By Jean-Philippe Combe, Thomas B. McCord, Federico Tosi, Eleonora Ammannito, Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Andrea Raponi, Shane Byrne, Margaret E. Landis, Kynan H. G. Hughson, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell Science…
Distribution of phyllosilicates on the surface of Ceres
E. Ammannito, M. C. DeSanctis, M. Ciarniello, A. Frigeri, F. G. Carrozzo, J.-Ph. Combe, B. L. Ehlmann, S. Marchi, H. Y. McSween, A. Raponi, M. J. Toplis, F. Tosi, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, F. Capaccioni, M….
Cratering on Ceres: Implications for its crust and evolution
By H. Hiesinger, S. Marchi, N. Schmedemann, P. Schenk, J. H. Pasckert, A. Neesemann, D. P. O’Brien, T. Kneissl, A. I. Ermakov, R. R. Fu, M. T. Bland, A. Nathues, T. Platz, D. A. Williams,…
Isotopic enrichment of forming planetary systems from supernova pollutionOPEN ACCESS
Tim Lichtenberg (ETH Zurich), Richard J. Parker (Liverpool JMU), Michael R. Meyer (ETH Zurich) accepted for publication in MNRAS 10.1093/mnras/stw1929 arXiv:1608.01435 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Heating by short-lived radioisotopes (SLRs) such as aluminum-26 and iron-60 fundamentally…
A partially differentiated interior for (1) Ceres deduced from its gravity field and shape
R. S. Park, A. S. Konopliv, B. G. Bills, N. Rambaux, J. C. Castillo-Rogez, C. A. Raymond, A. T. Vaughan, A. I. Ermakov, M. T. Zuber, R. R. Fu, M. J. Toplis, C. T. Russell,…
Inward Radial Mixing of Interstellar Water Ices in the Solar Protoplanetary Disk
Lionel G. Vacher, Yves Marrocchi, Maximilien J. Verdier-Paoletti, Johan Villeneuve, and Matthieu Gounelle The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 827, Number 1 Published 2016 August 2 LINK “The very wide diversity of asteroid compositions in the…
Iron and nickel isotope fractionation by diffusion, with applications to iron meteorites
Heather C. Watson, Frank Richter, Ankun Liu, Gary R. Huss Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 451, 1 October 2016, Pages 159-167 LINK “Highlights • New experimental measurement of diffusive isotopic fractionation in Fe–Ni alloys….
Capture of Trans-Neptunian Planetesimals in the Main Asteroid Belt
David Vokrouhlický, William F. Bottke, and David Nesvorný The Astronomical Journal, Volume 152, Number 2 Published 2016 July 26 LINK “The orbital evolution of the giant planets after nebular gas was eliminated from the Solar…
The missing large impact craters on CeresOPEN ACCESS
S. Marchi, A. I. Ermakov, C. A. Raymond, R. R. Fu, D. P. O’Brien, M. T. Bland, E. Ammannito, M. C. De Sanctis, T. Bowling, P. Schenk, J. E. C. Scully, D. L. Buczkowski, D….
Material composition assessment and discovering sublimation activity on asteroids 145 Adeona, 704 Interamnia, 779 Nina, and 1474 Beira
V. V. Busarev , S. I. Barabanov, V. B. Puzin Solar System Research July 2016, Volume 50, Issue 4, pp 281-293 First online: 23 July 2016 LINK “Spectrophotometric observations of 145 Adeona, 704 Interamnia, 779…
Tracking the Distribution of 26Al and 60Fe during the Early Phases of Star and Disk Evolution
Michael Kuffmeier, Troels Frostholm Mogensen, Troels Haugbølle, Martin Bizzarro, and Åke Nordlund The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 826, Number 1 Published 2016 July 18 LINK “The short-lived 26Al and 60Fe radionuclides are synthesized and expelled into…
Secondary submicrometer impact cratering on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Dennis Harries, Shogo Yakame, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Falko Langenhorst Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 337-345 Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • Submicrometer impact craters on RA-QD02-0265…
Boron abundances and isotopic ratios of olivine grains on Itokawa returned by the Hayabusa spacecraft.
Fujiya, W., Hoppe, P. and Ott, U. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12686 LINK “We report the B abundances and isotopic ratios of two olivine grains from the S-type asteroid Itokawa sampled by the Hayabusa…
Characterization of asteroid analogues by means of emission and reflectance spectroscopy in the 1- to 100-µm spectral rangeOPEN ACCESS
Alessandro Maturilli, Jörn Helbert, Sabrina Ferrari, Björn Davidsson and Mario D’Amore Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:113 DOI: 10.1186/s40623-016-0489-y Published: 11 July 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) HTML (OPEN ACCESS) “The last decades have seen a…
Mid-Infrared Bi-directional Reflectance Spectroscopy of Impact Melt Glasses and Tektites
Andreas Morlok, Aleksandra Stojic, Iris Weber, Harald Hiesinger, Michael Zanetti, Joern Helbert Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 22 June 2016 LINK “We have analyzed 14 impact melt glass samples, covering the compositional range…
Zirconium isotope constraints on the composition of Theia and current Moon-forming theoriesOPEN ACCESS
W. Akram, M. Schönbächler Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 449, 1 September 2016, Pages 302-310 Received 26 January 2016, Revised 10 May 2016, Accepted 14 May 2016, Available online 21 June 2016 LINK (OPEN…
Evidence for a Long Duration of the 16O-Rich Reservoir in the Solar Nebula
Ushikubo T. * Tenner T. J. Hiyagon H. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6080 LINK
Chondrule Oxygen Isotope Systematics Among Different Chondrite Groups: Variety of Isotope Reservoirs in the Protoplanetary Disk
Kita N. T. Tenner T. J. Ushikubo T. Hertwig A. Chaumard N. Defouilloy C. Nakashima D. Rudraswami N. G. Weisberg M. K. Kimura M. Nagahara H. Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society…
Relationship Between Asteroid 1 Ceres and Chondrite Meteorites on the Basis of Mineralogy and UV-Visible Spectroscopy
Farsang S. Raub T. D. Grady M. M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6213 LINK
The Chondrule–Matrix Complementarity, a Big Data Approach
Harak M. Hezel D. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6174 LINK
Evidence that 26Al did Not Melt Asteroids
Wasson J. T. * 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6530 LINK
Tungsten Isotope Dichotomy Among Iron Meteorite Parent Bodies: Implications for the Timescales of Accretion and Core Formation
Kruijer T. S. * Kleine T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6449 LINK
Expected Geochemical and Mineralogical Properties of Meteorites from Mercury:Inferences from MESSENGER Data
McCubbin F. M. * McCoy T. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6242] LINK
Do We have Meteorites from the Veritas Asteroid Break-Up Event 8 Ma ago?
Meier M. M. M. * Grimm S. Maden C. Busemann H. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6291] LINK
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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),…
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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‰….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Fragment shapes in impact experiments ranging from cratering to catastrophic disruption
T. Michikami, A. Hagermann, T. Kadokawa, A. Yoshida, A. Shimada, S. Hasegawa, A. Tsuchiyama Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 October 2015 LINK (full text)
Differentiation signatures in the Flora region
Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Paweł Kankiewicz, Ireneusz Włodarczyk, Agnieszka Kryszczyńska accepted to AA (28 09 2015) PDF (full text) abstract “Most asteroid families are very homogeneous in physical properties. Some show greater diversity, however. The Flora family…
Rounded Boulders on Itokawa as Clues to Geological Processes in the Early Solar System
J. Marshall, B. Rizk Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 October 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.09.015 LINK “Large rounded boulders on Itokawa are a surprising find and may be evidence of forceful inter-boulder…
Volatile snowlines in embedded disks around low-mass protostars
D. Harsono, S. Bruderer and E. F. van Dishoeck A&A, Volume 582, October 2015 Published online: 02 October 2015 LINK
The abundance of 26Al-rich planetary systems in the Galaxy
Matthieu Gounelle Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 582, October 2015 Published online: 30 September 2015 LINK “One of the most puzzling properties of the solar system is the high abundance at its birth of 26Al, a…
Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites as a simulation of space weathering on C-complex asteroids
C. LANTZ, R. Brunetto, M.A. Barucci, C. Bachelet, D. Baklouti, J. Bourçois, E. Dartois, J. Duprat, P. Duret, C. Engrand, M. Godard, D. Ledu, O. Mivumbi, and S. Fornasier EPSC Abstracts Vol. 10, EPSC2015-138, 2015…
Compositional evolution during rocky protoplanet accretion
Philip J. Carter, Zoë M. Leinhardt, Tim Elliott, Michael J. Walter, Sarah T. Stewart Accepted for publication in ApJ. PDF (full text) abstract Animations to accompany selected figures in the paper “The Earth appears non-chondritic…
Silicates on Iapetus from Cassini’s Composite Infrared Spectrometer
Cindy L. Young, James J. Wray, Roger N. Clark, John R. Spencer, Donald E. Jennings, Kevin P. Hand, Michael J. Poston, and Robert W. Carlson The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 811, Number 2 Published 2015…
The chlorine isotope fingerprint of the lunar magma ocean
By Jeremy W. Boyce, Allan H. Treiman, Yunbin Guan, Chi Ma, John M. Eiler, Juliane Gross, James P. Greenwood, Edward M. Stolper Science Advances 25 Sep 2015: Vol. 1, no. 8, e1500380 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500380 LINK…
Cosmochemical fractionation by collisional erosion during the Earth’s accretion
Asmaa Boujibar, Denis Andrault, Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Mohamed Ali Bouhifd & Julien Monteux Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8295 doi:10.1038/ncomms9295 Published 23 September 2015 LINK (open access) Supplementary information (PDF) “Early in the Solar System’s history,…
Signatures of Recent Asteroid Disruptions in the Formation and Evolution of Solar System Dust Bands
A. J. Espy Kehoe, T. J. J. Kehoe, J. E. Colwell, and S. F. Dermott The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 811, Number 1 Published 2015 September 22 LINK Updated (Oct. 5, 2015): PDF (full text) abstract
The Physical Characterization of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2004 BL86: A Fragment of a Differentiated Asteroid
Vishnu Reddy, Bruce L. Gary, Juan A. Sanchez, Driss Takir, Cristina A. Thomas, Paul S. Hardersen, Yenal Ogmen, Paul Benni, Thomas G. Kaye, Joao Gregorio, Joe Garlitz, David Polishook, Lucille Le Corre, and Andreas Nathues…
Differentiation processes in FeO-rich asteroids revealed by the achondrite Lewis Cliff 88763.
Day, J. M. D., Corder, C. A., Rumble, D., Assayag, N., Cartigny, P. and Taylor, L. A. (2015) Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12509 LINK “Olivine-dominated (70–80 modal %) achondrite meteorite Lewis Cliff (LEW) 88763…
Space Weathering Trends Among Carbonaceous AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Heather M. Kaluna, Joseph R. Masiero, Karen J. Meech accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (full text) abstract “We present visible spectroscopic and albedo data of the 2.3 Gyr old Themis family and the 15…
Planetesimal differentiation revealed by the Hf–W systematics of ureilites
Gerrit Budde, Thomas S. Kruijer, Mario Fischer-Gödde, Anthony J. Irving, Thorsten Kleine Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 430, 15 November 2015, Pages 316–325 LINK
Spectral calibration for deriving surface mineralogy of Asteroid (25143) Itokawa from Hayabusa Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRS) Data
Megha Bhatt, Vishnu Reddy, Lucille Le Corre, Juan A. Sanchez, Tasha Dunn, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Jian-Yang Li, Kris J. Becker, Lynn Weller Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 September 2015 LINK
Thermal Stability of Ice on Ceres with Rough Topography
P. O. Hayne , O. Aharonson Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets DOI: 10.1002/2015JE004887 LINK
Chasing the Chelyabinsk asteroid N-body style
C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos, S. J. Aarseth Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (2015 August 24) arXiv:1508.05907 PDF (full text) abstract
Visible-IR and Raman microspectroscopic investigation of three Itokawa particles collected by Hayabusa: Mineralogy and degree of space weathering based on nondestructive analyses
L. Bonal, R. Brunetto, P. Beck, E. Dartois, Z. Dionnet, Z. Djouadi, J. Duprat, E. Füri, Y. Kakazu, G. Montagnac, P. Oudayer, E. Quirico and C. Engrand Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12496 Article first…
Dynamical evolution of Chelyabinsk-type bodies from sungrazing orbits to near-Earth space
V.V. Emel’yanenko Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 August 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.08.005 LINK
Evidence for Pebbles in Comets
K.A. Kretke, H.F. Levison Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 August 2015 PDF (full text) abstract
Growing the gas-giant planets by the gradual accumulation of pebbles
Harold F. Levison Katherine A. Kretke Martin J. Duncan Nature 524, 322–324 (19 August 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature14675 LINK
Nucleobase and amino acid formation through impacts of meteorites on the early ocean
Yoshihiro Furukawa, Hiromoto Nakazawa, Toshimori Sekine, Takamichi Kobayashi, Takeshi Kakegawa Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 August 2015 LINK
26Al-26Mg chronology and oxygen isotope distributions of multiple melting for a Type C CAI from Allende
Noriyuki Kawasaki, Chizu Kato, Shoichi Itoh, Shigeyuki Wakaki, Motoo Ito, Hisayoshi Yurimoto Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 August 2015 LINK
Terrestrial Planet Formation Constrained by Mars and the Structure of the Asteroid Belt
André Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Alessandro Morbidelli, Othon C. Winter Accepted for publication in MNRAS update (Sept 9): MNRAS (November 11, 2015) 453 (4): 3619-3634. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1835 First published online September 9, 2015 PDF (full…
Spectrophotometry of (32) Pomona, (145) Adeona, (704) Interamnia, (779) Nina, (330825) 2008 XE3, and 2012 QG42 and laboratory study of possible analog samples
Vladimir V. Busarev, Sergey I. Barabanov, Vyacheslav S. Rusakov, Vasiliy B. Puzin, Valery V. Kravtsov Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 August 2015 LINK
A particle-based hybrid code for planet formation
Ryuji Morishima Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 July 2015 LINK
Ru isotope heterogeneity in the solar protoplanetary disk
Mario Fischer-Gödde, Christoph Burkhardt, Thomas S. Kruijer, Thorsten Kleine Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 July 2015 LINK
Melting and mixing states of the Earth’s mantle after the Moon-forming impact
Miki Nakajima, , David J. Stevenson Earth and Planetary Science Letters doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.06.023 LINK
Photometric Properties of Ceres from Telescopic Observations using Dawn Framing Camera Color Filters
Vishnu Reddy, Jian-Yang Li, Bruce L. Gary, Juan A. Sanchez, Robert D. Stephens, Ralph Megna, Daniel Coley, Andreas Nathues, Lucille Le Corre, Martin Hoffmann Icarus In Press, Available online 17 July 2015 LINK Updated (Oct…
Chondrule transport in Protoplanetary Disks
Aaron Z. Goldberg, James E. Owen, Emmanuel Jacquet Accepted to MNRAS last revised 1 May 2016 (this version, v2)) PDF (full text) abstract
Planetary and meteoritic Mg/Si and d30Si variations inherited from solar nebula chemistry
Nicolas Dauphas, Franck Poitrasson, Christoph Burkhardt, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Kosuke Kurosawa Accepted in Earth and Planetary Science Letters arXiv:1507.02922 PDF abstract
Pluto’s atmosphere
updated: 24 July, 23:00 CEST LINK LINK LINK Pluto starts to reveal its geological features LINK
Composition of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (214869) 2007 PA8: An H Chondrite from the Outer Asteroid Belt
Juan A. Sanchez, Vishnu Reddy, Melissa Dykhuis, Sean Lindsay, Lucille Le Corre Accepted for publication in APJ PDF (full text) abstract
Near-ultraviolet Bluing after Space Weathering of Silicates and Meteorites
Z. Kanuchova, R. Brunetto, D. Fulvio, G. Strazzulla Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 June 2015 LINK
Early aqueous activity on the ordinary and carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies recorded by fayalite
Patricia M. Doyle, Kaori Jogo, Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot, Shigeru Wakita, Fred J. Ciesla, Ian D. Hutcheon Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7444 doi:10.1038/ncomms8444 published: 23 June 2015 LINK Supplementary Information (PDF)































