3D shape of asteroid (6)~Hebe from VLT/SPHERE imaging: Implications for the origin of ordinary H chondritesOPEN ACCESS
M. Marsset, B. Carry, C. Dumas, J. Hanus, M. Viikinkoski, P. Vernazza, T. G. Müller, M. Delbo, E. Jehin, M. Gillon, J. Grice, B. Yang, T. Fusco, J. Berthier, S. Sonnett, F. Kugel, J. Caron,…
Silicate–SiO reaction in a protoplanetary disk recorded by oxygen isotopes in chondrules
Ryoji Tanaka & Eizo Nakamura Nature Astronomy 1, Article number: 0137 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0137 LINK “The formation of planetesimals and planetary embryos during the earliest stages of the solar protoplanetary disk largely determined the composition and…
New candidates for active asteroids: main-belt (145) Adeona, (704) Interamnia, (779) Nina, (1474) Beira, and near-Earth (162173) RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Vladimir V. Busarev, Andrei B. Makalkin, Faith Vilas, Sergey I. Barabanov, Marina P. Scherbina submitted to Icarus 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “For the first time, spectral signs of subtle coma activity were observed for four…
Silver contents and Cu/Ag ratios in Martian meteorites and the implications for planetary differentiation
Zaicong Wang, Harry Becker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 May 2017 LINK “Silver and Cu show very similar partitioning behavior in sulfide melt-silicate melt and metal-silicate systems at low…
The compositional diversity of non-Vesta basaltic asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Thomas B. Leith, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Rhiannon G. Mayne, Francesca E. DeMeo, Driss Takir, Brian J. Burt, Richard P. Binzel, Dimitra Pefkou Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 May 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Correlated Nanoscale Characterization of a Unique Complex Oxygen-rich Stardust Grain: Implications for Circumstellar Dust Formation
J. Leitner, P. Hoppe, C. Floss, F. Hillion, T. Henkel Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 11 May 2017 LINK “We report the light to intermediate-mass element abundances as well as…
Tracing metal–silicate segregation and late veneer in the Earth and the ureilite parent body with palladium stable isotopes
J.B. Creech, F. Moynier, M. Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 May 2017 LINK “Stable isotope studies of highly siderophile elements (HSE) have the potential to yield valuable insights…
Meteorite transport—Revisited
Wisdom, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12876 LINK “Meteorites are delivered from the asteroid belt by way of chaotic zones (Wisdom 1985a). The dominant sources are believed to be the chaotic zones associated with…
Testing the chondrule-rich accretion model for planetary embryos using calcium isotopesOPEN ACCESS
Elsa Amsellem, Frédéric Moynier, Emily A. Pringle, Audrey Bouvier, Heng Chen, James M. D. Day PhD Student Conference (PhDSC), l’Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), 13-17 March 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (28…
D/H ratios of the inner Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
L. J. Hallis Review article Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2017 375 20150390 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0390. Published 17 April 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The original hydrogen isotope (D/H) ratios of different planetary bodies…
Early accretion of water and volatile elements to the inner Solar System: evidence from angrites
Adam R. Sarafian, Erik H. Hauri, Francis M. McCubbin, Thomas J. Lapen, Eve L. Berger, Sune G. Nielsen, Horst R. Marschall, Glenn A. Gaetani, Kevin Righter, Emily Sarafian Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2017 375…
The origin of volatile element depletion in early solar system material: Clues from Zn isotopes in chondrulesOPEN ACCESS
Emily A. Pringle, Frédéric Moynier, Pierre Beck, Randal Paniello, Dominik C. Hezel Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 468, 15 June 2017, Pages 62-71 Open Access funded by European Research Council LINK (OPEN ACCESS) Update…
Stony Meteoroid Space Erosion and Drag: Effect on Cosmic Ray Exposure Ages
David Parry Rubincam Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript Available online 12 April 2017 doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.003 LINK “Highlights • Particles impacting a meteoroid cause space erosion in addition to a drag force. • The meteoroid’s shrinking size…
Sedimentary laminations in the Isheyevo (CH/CBb) carbonaceous chondrite formed by gentle impact-plume sweep-up
Laurence A.J. Garvie, L. Paul Knauth, Melissa A. Morris Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript Available online 2 April 2017 LINK see also: Accretional Layers Preserved in a Meteorite Written by Linda M. V. Martel Hawai’i…
Early Solar System irradiation quantified by linked vanadium and beryllium isotope variations in meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Paolo A. Sossi, Frédéric Moynier, Marc Chaussidon, Johan Villeneuve, Chizu Kato & Matthieu Gounelle Nature Astronomy 1, Article number: 0055 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0055 Published online: 20 March 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “X-ray emission in young…
In situ isotopic studies of the U-depleted Allende CAI Curious Marie: Pre-accretionary alteration and the co-existence of 26Al and 36Cl in the early solar nebula
Haolan Tang, Ming-Chang Liu, Kevin D. McKeegan, Francois L.H. Tissot, Nicolas Dauphas Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 March 2017 LINK “The isotopic composition of oxygen as well as 26Al-26Mg…
The impact trajectory of asteroid 2008 TC3
Davide Farnocchia, Peter Jenniskens, Darrel K. Robertson, Steven R. Chesley, Linda Dimare, Paul W. Chodas Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 March 2017 LINK “Highlights • 2008 TC3 was the first ever predicted…
Impact of radiogenic heating on the formation conditions of comet 67P/Churyumov-GerasimenkoOPEN ACCESS
O. Mousis, A. Drouard, P. Vernazza, J. I. Lunine, M. Monnereau, R. Maggiolo, K. Altwegg, H. Balsiger, J.-J. Berthelier, G. Cessateur, J. De Keyser, S. A. Fuselier, S. Gasc, A. Korth, T. Le Deun, U….
The Thermal Decomposition of Fine-grained Micrometeorites, Observations from Mid-IR SpectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
Martin David Suttle, Matthew J. Genge, Luigi Folco, Sara S. Russell Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 March 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “We analysed 44 fine-grained and scoriaceous micrometeorites. A…
A Low Abundance of 135Cs in the Early Solar System from Barium Isotopic Signatures of Volatile-depleted Meteorites
Gregory A. Brennecka and Thorsten Kleine The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 837, Number 1 Published 2017 March 2 LINK “Precise knowledge of the abundances of short-lived radionuclides at the start of the solar system leads…
Chondrule Accretion with a Growing ProtoplanetOPEN ACCESS
Yuji Matsumoto, Shoichi Oshino, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Shigeru Wakita accepted for publication in ApJ Draft version published: 28 February 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (8 March 2017): LINK The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 837, Number 2 “Chondrules…
40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He model age signatures of elusive Mercurian and Venusian meteorites.
Jourdan, F. and Eroglu, E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12838 LINK “No meteorites from Mercury and Venus have been conclusively identified so far. In this study, we develop an original approach based on extensive…
Low-velocity collisions of chondrules: How a thin dust cover helps enhance the sticking probabilityOPEN ACCESS
Nina Gunkelmann, Akimasa Kataoka, Cornelis P. Dullemond and Herbert M. Urbassek A&A Volume 599, March 2017 24 February 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Aims. The collision of two chondrules covered by a dust…
Iron isotopic fractionation between silicate mantle and metallic core at high pressureOPEN ACCESS
Jin Liu, Nicolas Dauphas, Mathieu Roskosz, Michael Y. Hu, Hong Yang, Wenli Bi, Jiyong Zhao, Esen E. Alp, Justin Y. Hu & Jung-Fu Lin Nature Communications 8, Article number: 14377 (2017) doi:10.1038/ncomms14377 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Non-chondritic iron isotope ratios in planetary mantles as a result of core formation
Stephen M. Elardo & Anat Shahar Nature Geoscience (2017) doi:10.1038/ngeo2896 Published online 20 February 2017 LINK “Information about the materials and conditions involved in planetary formation and differentiation in the early Solar System is recorded…
Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres
By M. C. De Sanctis, E. Ammannito, H. Y. McSween, A. Raponi, S. Marchi, F. Capaccioni, M. T. Capria, F. G. Carrozzo, M. Ciarniello, S. Fonte, M. Formisano, A. Frigeri, M. Giardino, A. Longobardo, G….
Mass Accumulation of Earth from Interplanetary Dust, Meteoroids, Asteroids and Comets
Gerhard Drolshagen, Detlef Koschny, Sandra Drolshagen, Jana Kretschmer, Björn Poppe Planetary and Space Science SI:Meteoroids 2016 Available online 14 February 2017 LINK “Using new data and recent models this paper derives a total combined flux…
Lifetime of the solar nebula constrained by meteorite paleomagnetism
By Huapei Wang, Benjamin P. Weiss, Xue-Ning Bai, Brynna G. Downey, Jun Wang, Jiajun Wang, Clément Suavet, Roger R. Fu, Maria E. Zucolotto Science 10 Feb 2017: Vol. 355, Issue 6325, pp. 623-627 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf5043…
Core Formation and Internal Structure of Planetesimals: The Role of Formation Time, Accretion Duration, and Terminal Size
T. Suwa, H. Nagahara 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2130 LINK
Dating the Formation of Jupiter through W and Mo Isotope Analyses of Meteorites
T. S. Kruijer, T. Kleine, C. Burkhardt, G. Budde 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1386 LINK
36Cl-36S in Allende CAIs: Implication for the Origins of 36Cl in the Early Solar System
H. Tang, M. C. Liu, K. D. McKeegan, F. L. H. Tissot, N. Dauphas 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2618 LINK
Once a CAI, always a CAI: Flare-Up-Induced Episodic Fractionation and Melting in the Early Solar Nebula
G. J. MacPherson 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2719 LINK
Giant Planet Formation and the Evolution of Oxygen Isotopes in the Solar System
L. P. Keller, C. Snead, K. D. McKeegan 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2457 LINK
Presolar Grains in Micrometeorites: Evidence for the Injection of Supernova Dust into the Solar Nebula
P. Haenecour, C. Floss, R. Ogliore, A. Wang, T. Yada 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1080 LINK
Magnesium, Titanium, and Chromium Isotope Compositions of Refractory Inclusions from Several CV3 and CK3 Chondrites: Implications for Nebular Heterogeneity
Z. A. Torrano, V. K. Rai, M. Wadhwa 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #3045 LINK
Melting of C-Rich Planetesimals and Implications for the Composition of the Ureilite Parent Body
M. Collinet, T. L. Grove 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2052 LINK
Search for Primitive Matter in the Solar System
G. Libourel, P. Michel, M. Delbo, C. Ganino, A. Recio-Blanco, P. de Laverny, M. E. Zolensky, A. R. Krot 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2280 LINK
Vis-IR Reflectance Spectroscopy of Hydrous Carbonaceous Chondrites with Variable Heating and Dehydration Degrees
M. Matsuoka, T. Nakamura, N. Miyajima, N. Imae, A. Yamaguchi, H. Kojima 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2050 LINK
Analyzing the Chemical and Spectral Effects of Pulsed Laser Irradiation to Simulate Space Weathering of a Carbonaceous Chondrite
M. S. Thompson, L. P. Keller, R. Christoffersen, M. J. Loeffler, R. V. Morris, T. G. Graff, Z. Rahman 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #2799 LINK
Brachinite-Like Clast in the Kaidun Meteorite: First Report of Primitive Achondrite Material
Higashi, K.; Hasegawa, H.; Mikouchi, T.; Zolensky, M. E. Conference Paper Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ; 48th; 20-24 Mar. 2017; The Woodlands, TX; United States JSC-CN-38570 Date Acquired: Jan 26, 2017 PDF 48th Lunar…
A tale of clusters: No resolvable periodicity in the terrestrial impact cratering recordOPEN ACCESS
Matthias M. M. Meier, Sanna Holm-Alwmark MNRAS (2017) stx211. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx211 Published: 25 January 2017 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (updated: 1 Feb) LINK “Rampino & Caldeira (2015) carry out a circular spectral analysis (CSA) of the terrestrial…
Different origins or different evolutions? Decoding the spectral diversity among C-type asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
P. Vernazza, J. Castillo-Rogez, P. Beck, J. Emery, R. Brunetto, M. Delbo, M. Marsset, F. Marchis, O. Groussin, B. Zanda, P. Lamy, L. Jorda, O. Mousis, A. Delsanti, Z. Djouadi, Z. Dionnet, F. Borondics, B….
Accretional and alterational differences in a carbonaceous chondrite parent body: Evidence from the NWA 5491 CV3 meteorite
Kereszturi, A., Gyollai, I., Jozsa, S. and Kanuchova, Z. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12802 Version of Record online: 17 JAN 2017 LINK “The NWA 5491 CV3 meteorite is a CVoxA subtype, and composed of…
Early formation of the Moon 4.51 billion years agoOPEN ACCESS
Melanie Barboni, Patrick Boehnke, Brenhin Keller, Issaku E. Kohl, Blair Schoene, Edward D. Young, Kevin D. McKeegan Science Advances 11 Jan 2017: Vol. 3, no. 1, e1602365 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602365 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Igneous lithologies on asteroid (4) Vesta mapped using gamma-ray and neutron data
Andrew W. Beck, David J. Lawrence, Patrick N. Peplowski, Christina E. Viviano-Beck, Thomas H. Prettyman, Timothy J. McCoy, Harry Y. McSween Jr, Naoyuki Yamashita Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 January 2017 LINK…
Simulated Space Weathering of Fe- and Mg-rich Aqueously Altered Minerals Using Pulsed Laser IrradiationOPEN ACCESS
H.M. Kaluna, H.A. Ishii, J.P. Bradley, J.J. Gillis-Davis, P.G. Lucey Update (2 Jan 17): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • We simulate space weathering on…
Tungsten stable isotope compositions of terrestrial samples and meteorites determined by double spike MC-ICPMS
Nadine Krabbe, Thomas S. Kruijer, Thorsten Kleine Chemical Geology In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 23 December 2016 LINK “Tungsten stable isotopes hold great potential to examine a variety of physical and chemical processes operating…
Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main beltOPEN ACCESS
Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Brian A. Skiff, Nick Moskovitz, Paweł Kankiewicz, Anna Marciniak, Javier Licandro, Mattia Galiazzo, Werner Zeilinger Astronomy & Astrophysics December 16, 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Most Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogs to V-type asteroids)…
Nanoindenting the Chelyabinsk meteorite to learn about impact deflection effects in asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Carles E. Moyano-Cambero, Eva Pellicer, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Iwan P. Williams, Jürgen Blum, Patrick Michel, Michael Küppers, Marina Martínez-Jiménez, Ivan Lloro, Jordi Sort Astrophysical Journal (2017) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract Update (24 January 2017): LINK…
Thermal evolution of planetesimals during accretion
Y. Ricard, D. Bercovici, F. Albarède Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • joint mass-temperature distributions in a planetesimal swarm • molten planetary embryos are formed in only a…
Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites: a new view of space weathering on primitive asteroids
C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M.A. Barucci, S. Fornasier, D. Baklouti, J. Bourçois, M. Godard Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • New ion irradiations on several carbonaceous chondrites to…
Extensive water ice within Ceres’ aqueously altered regolith: Evidence from nuclear spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
by T. H. Prettyman, N. Yamashita, M. J. Toplis, H. Y. McSween, N. Schorghofer, S. Marchi, W. C. Feldman, J. Castillo-Rogez, O. Forni, D. J. Lawrence, E. Ammannito, B. L. Ehlmann, H. G. Sizemore, S….
Timing of the formation and migration of giant planets as constrained by CB chondritesOPEN ACCESS
By Brandon C. Johnson, Kevin J. Walsh, David A. Minton, Alexander N. Krot, Harold F. Levison Science Advances 09 Dec 2016: Vol. 2, no. 12, e1601658 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601658 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The…
Diversity of the initial rocky planetary building materials at the edge of the solar system
Brownlee, D. E. and Joswiak, D. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12804 First published: 9 December 2016 LINK “Asteroids and comets are surviving members of the vast planetesimal population that was distributed across the…
The accretion and impact history of the ordinary chondrite parent bodies
Terrence Blackburn, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Richard Carlson, Linda T. Elkins-Tanton Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 December 2016 LINK “A working timeline for the history of ordinary chondrites includes…
Physical Characterization of ~2-meter Diameter Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 TC25: A possible boulder from E-type Asteroid (44) NysaOPEN ACCESS
Vishnu Reddy, Juan A. Sanchez, William F. Bottke, Audrey Thirouin, Edgard G. Rivera-Valentin, Michael S. Kelley, William Ryan, Edward A. Cloutis, Stephen C. Tegler, Eileen V. Ryan, Patrick A. Taylor, James E. Richardson, Nicholas Moskovitz,…
Distribution of p-process 174Hf in early solar system materials and the origin of nucleosynthetic Hf and W isotope anomalies in Ca–Al rich inclusions
Stefan T.M. Peters, Carsten Münker, Markus Pfeifer, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Peter Sprung Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Chondrites, eucrites and Earth carry uniform p-process…
Mid-infrared spectra of comet nucleiOPEN ACCESS
Michael S.P. Kelley, Charles E. Woodward, Robert D. Gehrz, William T. Reach, David E. Harker Icarus (in Press) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Highlights • We observed two comet nuclei with the Spitzer Space Telescope. •…
Mn-Cr ages and formation conditions of fayalite in CV3 carbonaceous chondrites: Constraints on the accretion ages of chondritic asteroids
Kaori Jogo, Tomoki Nakamura, Motoo Ito, Shigeru Wakita, Mikhail Yu. Zolotov, Scott R. Messenger Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 November 2016 LINK “Chondritic planetesimals are among the first planetary…
Asteroid Fragmentation Approaches for Modeling Atmospheric Energy Deposition
Paul J. Register, Donovan L. Mathias, Lorien F. Wheeler Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Fragmentation modeling approaches are compared using Chelyabinsk meteor data. • A new model…
Melting and differentiation of early-formed asteroids: The perspective from high precision oxygen isotope studiesOPEN ACCESS
Richard C. Greenwood, Thomas H. Burbine, Martin F. Miller, Ian. A. Franchi Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry Review article In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 14 November 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “A number of distinct…
Rocky Planetesimal Formation via Fluffy Aggregates of NanograinsOPEN ACCESS
Sota Arakawa, Taishi Nakamoto Updated (18 Nov. 2016): The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 832, Number 2 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Several pieces of evidence suggest that silicate grains in primitive meteorites are not interstellar grains…
Thermal and chemical evolution in the early Solar System as recorded by FUN CAIs: Part I – Petrology, mineral chemistry, and isotopic composition of Allende FUN CAI CMS-1
C.D. Williams, T. Ushikubo, E.S. Bullock, P.E. Janney, R.R. Hines, N.T. Kita, R.L. Hervig, G.J. MacPherson, R.A. Mendybaev, F.M. Richter, M. Wadhwa Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 November 2016…
Extreme early solar system chemical fractionation recorded by alkali-rich clasts contained in ordinary chondrite breccias
Tatsunori Yokoyama, Keiji Misawa, Osamu Okano, Chi-Yu Shih, Laurence E. Nyquist, Justin I. Simon, Michael J. Tappa, Shigekazu Yoneda Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 11 November 2016 LINK “Highlights…
Modeling orbital gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments at carbonaceous asteroids
Lucy F. Lim, Richard D. Starr, Larry G. Evans, Ann M. Parsons, Michael E. Zolensky and William V. Boynton Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12786 Version of Record online: 6 NOV 2016 LINK “To evaluate…
Hungaria Asteroid Region Telescopic Spectral Survey (HARTSS) I: Stony Asteroids Abundant in the Hungaria Background Population
Michael P. Lucas, Joshua P. Emery, Noemi Pinilla-Alonso, Sean S. Lindsay, Vania Lorenzi Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • HARTSS describes taxonomy, mineralogy, and meteorite analogs of Hungaria…
FC Colour Images of Dwarf Planet Ceres Reveal a Complicated Geological History
A. Nathues, M. Hoffmann, T. Platz, G.S. Thangjam, E.A. Cloutis, V. Reddy, L. Le Corre, J.-Y. Li, K. Mengel, A. Rivkin, D.M. Applin, M. Schaefer, U. Christensen, H. Sierks, J. Ripken, B.E. Schmidt, H. Hiesinger,…
Matrix effects on the relative sensitivity factors for manganese and chromium during ion microprobe analysis of carbonate: implications for early Solar System chronology
Robert C.J. Steele, Veronika S. Heber, Kevin D. McKeegan Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 5 November 2016 LINK “The short-lived radionuclide 53Mn decays to 53Cr providing a relative chronometer for…
Pb-Pb Chronometry and the Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
J.N. Connelly, J. Bollard, M. Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 November 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Of the long-lived chronometric systems, only the dual decay of 238U and 235U…
Numerical determination of visible/NIR optical constants from laboratory spectra of HED meteorites
Jorge A.G. Davalos, Jorge Márcio Carvano, Julio Blanco Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 October 2016 LINK “Highlights • Optical constants from reflectance spectra of meteorite samples are retrieved. • The method uses…
Olivine settling in cosmic spherules during atmospheric deceleration: An indicator of the orbital eccentricity of interplanetary dustOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Genge, Martin Suttl Geophysical Research Letters 43 DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070874 First published: 19 October 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Key Points * Antarctic cosmic spherules with cumulate textures are reported * Numerical…
The Impact Ejecta Environment of Near Earth Asteroids
Jamey R. Szalay and Mihály Horány The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 830, Number 2 LINK “Impact ejecta production is a ubiquitous process that occurs on all airless bodies throughout the solar system. Unlike the Moon,…
A renewed search for short-lived 126Sn in the early Solar System: Hydride generation MC-ICPMS for high sensitivity Te isotopic analysis
Gregory A. Brennecka, Lars E. Borg, Stephen J. Romaniello, Amanda K. Souders, Quinn R. Shollenberger, Naomi E. Marks, Meenakshi Wadhwa Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 October 2016 LINK “Although…
The global elemental composition of 433 Eros: First results from the NEAR Gamma-Ray Spectrometer orbital dataset
Patrick N. Peplowski Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2016.10.006 LINK “Highlights • First results from the NEAR GRS orbital investigation • Eros’ surface composition is consistent with ordinary chondrites, enstatite chondrites, and…
Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions with fractionation and unidentified nuclear effects (FUN CAIs): II. Heterogeneities of magnesium isotopes and 26Al in the early Solar System inferred from in situ high-precision magnesium-isotope measurements
Changkun Park, Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot, Gary R. Huss, Andrew M. Davis, Martin Bizzarro Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 8 October 2016 LINK “Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions with isotopic mass fractionation…
New constraints on the magnetic history of the CV parent body and the solar nebula from the Kaba meteorite
Jérôme Gattacceca, Benjamin P. Weiss, Matthieu Gounelle Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 October 2016 LINK “Highlights • Kaba meteorite is a high-fidelity recorder of the CV parent body…
Search for primitive matter in the Solar System
Guy Libourel, Patrick Michel, Marco Delbo, Clément Ganino, Alejandra Recio-Blanco, Patrick de Laverny, Michael E. Zolensky, Alexander N. Krot Icarus Volume 282, 15 January 2017, Pages 375-379 LINK “In this note, we show that neither…
Spectral characterization of V-type asteroids outside the Vesta family
Alessandra Migliorini, M.C. De Sanctis, D. Lazzaro, and E. Ammannito MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2441 first published online September 26, 2016 LINK “We present new NIR reflectance spectra of 10 V-type candidate asteroids obtained at the 3.6 m…
Global variations in regolith properties on asteroid Vesta from Dawn’s low-altitude mapping orbit.
Denevi, B. W., Beck, A. W., Coman, E. I., Thomson, B. J., Ammannito, E., Blewett, D. T., Sunshine, J. M., De Sanctis, M. C., Li, J.-Y., Marchi, S., Mittlefehldt, D. W., Petro, N. E., Raymond,…
The Asteroid Belt as a Relic From a Chaotic Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Andre Izidoro, Sean N. Raymond, Arnaud Pierens, Alessandro Morbidelli, Othon C. Winter, David Nesvorny Accepted for publication in ApJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “The orbital structure of the asteroid belt holds a record of the…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…
Primitive Solar System materials and Earth share a common initial 142Nd abundance
A. Bouvier & M. Boyet Nature 537, 399–402 (15 September 2016) doi:10.1038/nature19351 LINK “The early evolution of planetesimals and planets can be constrained using variations in the abundance of neodymium-142 (142Nd), which arise from the…
A nucleosynthetic origin for the Earth’s anomalous 142Nd composition
C. Burkhardt, L. E. Borg, G. A. Brennecka, Q. R. Shollenberger, N. Dauphas, T. Kleine Nature 537, 394–398 (14 September 2016) | doi:10.1038/nature18956 LINK “A long-standing paradigm assumes that the chemical and isotopic compositions of…
Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon
Kun Wang, Stein B. Jacobsen Nature doi:10.1038/nature19341 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “The Earth–Moon system has unique chemical and isotopic signatures compared with other planetary bodies1, 2, 3; any successful model for the origin…
Core merging and stratification following giant impact
Maylis Landeau, Peter Olson, Renaud Deguen & Benjamin H. Hirsh Nature Geoscience(2016) doi:10.1038/ngeo2808 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “A stratified layer below the core–mantle boundary has long been suspected on the basis of geomagnetic…
Space Weathering on Airless BodiesOPEN ACCESS
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Review Accepted manuscript online: 9 September 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “Space weathering refers to alteration that occurs in the space environment with time. Lunar samples, and to some extent…
The Motion of Chondrules and Other Particles in a Protoplanetary Disk with Temperature FluctuationsOPEN ACCESS
Christoph Loesche, Gerhard Wurm, Thorben Kelling, Jens Teiser, Denton S. Ebel PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “We consider the mechanism of photophoretic transport in protoplanetary disks that are optically thick to radiation. Here, photophoresis is not…
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…
