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)
Brief Follow-up on Recent Studies of Theia’s Accretion
Nathan A. Kaib, Nicolas B. Cowan accepted to Icarus arXiv:1506.06132 PDF LINK abstract
Pb-Pb dating of individual chondrules from the CBa chondrite Gujba: Assessment of the impact plume formation model
Bollard, J., Connelly, J. N. and Bizzarro, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12461 LINK
Interplanetary Dust Particles as Samples of Icy Asteroids
P. Vernazza, M. Marsset, P. Beck, R. P. Binzel, M. Birlan, R. Brunetto, F. E. Demeo, Z. Djouadi, C. Dumas, S. Merouane, O. Mousis, and B. Zanda The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 806 Number 2…
Xenon in the Protoplanetary Disk (PPD-Xe)
K. Marti and K. J. Mathew The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 806 Number 2 ApJ 806 L30. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/806/2/L30 Received 9 April 2015, accepted for publication 27 Mai 2015. Published 18 Juni 2015. LINK
The Compositional Structure of the Asteroid Belt
Francesca E. DeMeo, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Kevin J. Walsh, Clark R. Chapman, Richard P. Binzel Accepted chapter in Asteroids IV in the Space Science Series to be published Fall 2015 PDF (full text) abstract
Chips Off the Old Block: Enstatite Chondrites as Samples of the Proto-Earth
Gaidos E. * Yin Q.-Z. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5145 abstract (PDF)
I-Xe Systematics of Brachinite-Like Ultramafic Achondrite Northwest Africa 5400
Pravdivtseva O. * Meshik A. Hohenberg C. M. Irving A. J. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5387 abstract (PDF)
The Closely Linked Timing of Chondrule and Chondrite Formation
Alexander C. M. O’D. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5369 abstract (PDF)
Why Do U-Pb Ages of Chondrules and CAIs Have More Spread than Their 26 Al Ages?
Kita N. T. * Tenner T. J. Ushikubo T. Bouvier A. Wadhwa M. Bullock E. S. MacPherson G. J. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5360 abstract (PDF)
Tafassasset: Evidence of early incipient differentiation on a metal-rich chondritic parent body
Thomas Breton, Ghylaine Quitté, Michael J. Toplis, Marc Monnereau, Jean-Louis Birck, Christa Göpel, Cyril Charles Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 425, 1 September 2015, Pages 193–203 LINK
26Al-26Mg Systematics of Ungrouped Achondrites: Implications for Timing of Planetesimal Differentiation
Dunlap D. R., Wadhwa M., Romaniello S. J., Souders A. K., Hines R. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015) Berkeley, USA July 27-31 2015 PDF (abstract)
Systematic ranging and late warning asteroid impacts
D. Farnocchia, S.R. Chesley, M. Micheli Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 June 2015 LINK
Fragments of Late Eocene Earth-impacting asteroids linked to disturbance of asteroid belt
Birger Schmitz , Samuele Boschi , Anders Cronholm , Philipp R. Heck , Simonetta Monechi , Alessandro Montanari , Fredrik Terfelt Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 425, 1 September 2015, Pages 77–83 LINK
Dynamics of hypervelocity jetting during oblique impacts of spherical projectiles investigated via ultrafast imaging
Kosuke Kurosawa, Yoichi Nagaoka, Hiroki Senshu, Koji Wada, Sunao Hasegawa, Seiji Sugita and Takafumi Matsui Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Accepted manuscript online: 4 JUN 2015 12:58AM EST | DOI: 10.1002/2014JE004730 LINK Update (September 3,…
Low-Temperature reflectance spectra of brucite and the primitive surface of 1-Ceres?
P. Beck, B. Schmitt, E.A. Cloutis, P. Vernazza Icarus, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 June 2015 LINK
Synthesis of refractory organic matter in the ionized gas phase of the solar nebula
Maïa Kuga, Bernard Marty, Yves Marrocchi, and Laurent Tissandier PNAS2015 ; published ahead of print May 26, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1502796112 PDF (full text) abstract
A Renewed Search for Extant 126Sn: Te Isotopics of Allende CAIs Obtained by HG-ICPMS
Brennecka G, Borg L, Romaniello S, Souders AK & Wadhwa M Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, 16-21 August 2015 PDF (abstract)
Aluminium-26 Systematics of CV3 Chondrules: Evidence for a Multi-Stage Thermal History
Russell S, Claydon J, Coath C, Lai Y-J & Elliott T Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, 16-21 August 2015 PDF (abstract)
I-Xe Constraints on Accretion and Collisional Timescales
Gilmour J Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, 16-21 August 2015 PDF (abstract)
Solar Initial 92Nb/93Nb Deduced from U-Pb Dated Achondrites
Iizuka T, Lai Y-J, Akram W, Amelin Y & Schönbächler M Goldschmidt 2015, Prague, 16-21 August 2015 PDF (abstract)
The molecular composition of impact-generated atmospheres on terrestrial planets during the post-accretion stage
Hideharu Kuwahara, Seiji Sugita Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.05.007 LINK
Surface and internal structures of a space-weathered rim of an Itokawa regolith particle
Toru Matsumoto, Akira Tsuchiyama, Akira Miyake, Takaaki Noguchi, Michihiko Nakamura, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Yoshio Suzuki, Tsukasa Nakano Icarus, In Press, available online 15 May 2015 LINK
Asteroid family ages
Federica Spoto, Andrea Milani, Zoran Knežević Icarus, available online 13 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.041 LINK
Toward an Understanding of Phyllosilicate Mineralogy in the Outer Main Asteroid Belt
Driss Takir, Joshua P. Emery, Harry Y. McSween Icarus available online 13 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.042 LINK Proposed mineralogical linkages between CM/CI carbonaceous chondrites and outer Main Belt asteroids remain uncertain due to a dearth of…
Solar Cosmic-ray Interaction with Protoplanetary Disks: Production of Short-lived Radionuclides and Amorphization of Crystalline Material
R. Trappitsch and F. J. Ciesla ApJ 805 5. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/805/1/5 Received 17 April 2014, accepted for publication 3 März 2015. Published 13 Mai 2015 LINK
New Paradigms For Asteroid Formation
Anders Johansen, Emmanuel Jacquet, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Alessandro Morbidelli, Matthieu Gounelle Chapter to appear in the book ASTEROIDS IV, (University of Arizona Press) Space Science Series, edited by P. Michel, F. DeMeo and W. Bottke…
Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap Asteroids III
Sherry K. Fieber-Beyer, Michael J. Gaffey Icarus In Press, available online 5 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.034 LINK
The sunlit northern terrain of Ceres / Dawn in science orbit
” images taken on April 14 and 15 from a vantage point 14,000 miles (22,000 kilometers) above Ceres’ north pole.” photo animated photo extra information extra information
Modelling the brightness increase signature due to asteroid collisions
Ev McLoughlin, Alan Fitzsimmons, Alan McLoughlin Icarus In press, available online 17 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.015 LINK We have developed a model to predict the post-collision brightness increase of sub-catastrophic collisions between asteroids and to evaluate…
Growth of asteroids, planetary embryos, and Kuiper belt objects by chondrule accretion
Anders Johansen, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Pedro Lacerda, Martin Bizzarro Science Advances 17 Apr 2015: Vol. 1 no. 3 e1500109 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500109 PDF (full text) LINK (full text)
Dating the Moon-forming impact event with asteroidal meteorites
W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlický, S. Marchi, T. Swindle, E. R. D. Scott, J. R. Weirich, and H. Levison Science 17 April 2015: Vol. 348 no. 6232 pp. 321-323 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa0602 LINK Supplementary materials (PDF)
Variability, absorption features, and parent body searches in “spectrally featureless” meteorite reflectance spectra: Case study – Tagish Lake
M.R.M. Izawa, M.A. Craig, D.M. Applin, J.A. Sanchez, V. Reddy, L. LeCorre, P. Mann, E.A. Cloutis Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.013 published online 15 April 2015 LINK
Dawn’s First Color Map of Ceres
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A Search for Subkilometer-sized Ordinary Chondrite Like Asteroids in the Main-Belt
H.W. Lin, Fumi Yoshida, Y.T. Chen, W.H. Ip, C.K. Chang Icarus available online 11 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.007 LINK PDF (full text) The size-dependent effects of asteroids on surface regolith and collisional lifetimes suggest that small…
The comet-like composition of a protoplanetary disk as revealed by complex cyanides
Karin I. Öberg, Viviana V. Guzmán, Kenji Furuya, Chunhua Qi, Yuri Aikawa, Sean M. Andrews, Ryan Loomis & David J. Wilner Nature 520, 198–201 (09 April 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature14276 LINK
Early accretion of protoplanets inferred from a reduced inner solar system 26Al inventory
Martin Schiller, James N. Connelly, Aslaug C. Glad, Takashi Mikouchi, Martin Bizzarro Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 420, 15 June 2015, Pages 45–54 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.028 LINK
Systematic ranging and late warning asteroid impacts
D. Farnocchia, S. R. Chesley, M. Micheli arXiv:1504.00025 PDF (full text) LINK
Is Vesta an Intact and Pristine Protoplanet?
G.J. Consolmagno, G.J. Golabek, D. Turrini, M. Jutzi, S. Sirono, V. Svetsov, K. Tsiganis Icarus available online 1 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.03.029 LINK
Darkening of Mercury’s surface by cometary carbon
Megan Bruck Syal, Peter H. Schultz, Miriam A. Riner Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2397 published online 30 March 2015 LINK
Extinct isotope heterogeneities in the mantles of Earth and Mars: Implications for mantle stirring rates
Jacobsen, S. B. and Yu, G. (2015) Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12426 LINK
Growth of asteroids, planetary embryos and Kuiper belt objects by chondrule accretion
Anders Johansen, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Pedro Lacerda Science Advances arXiv:1503.07347 accepted for publication, submitted 25 March 2015 LINK PDF (full text) Chondrules are millimeter-sized spherules that dominate primitive meteorites (chondrites) originating from the asteroid belt….
Early stages of core segregation recorded by Fe isotopes in an asteroidal mantle
J.A. Barrat, O. Rouxel, K. Wang, F. Moynier, A. Yamaguchi, A. Bischoff, J. Langlade Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 419, 1 June 2015, Pages 93–100 LINK Ureilite meteorites are achondrites that are debris of…
Jupiter’s decisive role in the inner Solar System’s early evolution
Konstantin Batygin and Greg Laughlin PNAS 2015 ; published ahead of print March 23, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1423252112 LINK Supporting Information (PDF)
Pulse-laser irradiation experiments of Murchison CM2 chondrite for reproducing space weathering on C-type asteroids
Moe Matsuoka, Tomoki Nakamura, Yuki Kimura, Takahiro Hiroi, Ryosuke Nakamura, Satoshi Okumura, Sho Sasaki Icarus available online 14 March 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.02.029 LINK
The August θ-Aquillid fireballs and possible relationship with the asteroid 2004MB6
Kokhirova, G. I. and Babadzhanov, P. B. (2015) Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12431 LINK
Hydrogen and major element concentrations on 433 Eros: Evidence for an L- or LL-chondrite-like surface composition
Peplowski, P. N., Bazell, D., Evans, L. G., Goldsten, J. O., Lawrence, D. J. and Nittler, L. R. (2015) Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12434 LINK
Impact vaporization of planetesimal cores in the late stages of planet Formation
Richard G. Kraus, Seth Root, Raymond W. Lemke, Sarah T. Stewart, Stein B. Jacobsen, Thomas R. Mattsson Nature Geoscience 8, 269–272 doi:10.1038/ngeo2369 LINK Supplementary Information(PDF)
The two views of Ceres
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Low 60Fe abundance in Semarkona and Sahara 99555
Haolan Tang, Nicolas Dauphas The Astrophysical Journal, in press. arXiv:1502.05611 PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Dawn probe to look for a habitable ocean on Ceres
Eric Hand Science 20 February 2015: Vol. 347 no. 6224 pp. 813-814 DOI: 10.1126/science.347.6224.813 LINK
Mineralogy and Surface Composition of Asteroids
Vishnu Reddy, Tasha L. Dunn, Cristina A. Thomas, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Thomas H. Burbine Chapter to appear in the Space Science Series Book: Asteroids IV PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Earth and Terrestrial Planet Formation
Seth A. Jacobson, Kevin J. Walsh accepted for publication in Early Earth, an AGU Monograph edited by James Badro and Michael J. Walter PDF LINK (full text) LINK(abstract)
Chemical and mineralogical compositions of two grains recovered from asteroid Itokawa
Ebihara, M., Shirai, N., Sekimoto, S., Nakamura, T., Tsuchiyama, A., Matsuno, J., Matsumoto, T., Tanaka, M., Abe, M., Fujimura, A., Ishibashi, Y., Karouji, Y., Mukai, T., Okada, T., Uesugi, M. and Yada, T. (2015) Meteoritics…
A micro-Raman and infrared study of several Hayabusa category 3 (organic) particles
Fumio Kitajima, Masayuki Uesugi, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Toru Yada, Hiroshi Naraoka, Masanao Abe, Akio Fujimura, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Hajime Mita, Yoshinori Takano, Tatsuaki Okada Earth, Planets and Space 2015, 67:20 (11 February 2015)…
Modeling asteroid collisions and impact processes
Martin Jutzi, Keith Holsapple, Kai Wünneman, Patrick Michel Chapter to appear in the Space Science Series Book: Asteroids IV arXiv:1502.01844 PDF (full text) LINK
Ceres – seen by Dawn III
This animation showcases a series of images NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Sulfidization of Iron in the Dynamic Solar Nebula and Implications for Planetary Compositions
Fred J. Ciesla The Astrophysical Journal Letters Volume 800 Number 1 ApJ 800 L6. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/800/1/L6 published 4 Februar 2015. LINK
Asteroid Family Physical Properties
Joseph Masiero, Francesca DeMeo, Toshihiro Kasuga, Alex H. Parker arXiv:1502.00961 PDF LINK (full text) LINK
A new investigation of hydration in the M-type asteroids
Z.A. Landsman, H. Campins, N. Pinilla-Alonso, J. Hanuš, V. Lorenzi Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.01.021 available online 2 February 2015 LINK
The Feeding Zones of Terrestrial Planets and Insights into Moon Formation
Nathan A. Kaib, Nicolas B. Cowan Icarus, available online 29 January 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.01.013 PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Short-term variability on the surface of (1) Ceres. A changing amount of water ice?
D. Perna, Z. Kaňuchová, S. Ieva, S. Fornasier, M. A. Barucci, C. Lantz, E. Dotto, G. Strazzulla PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Ceres – seen by Dawn spacecraft II
This animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on January 25, 2015. The spacecraft’s framing camera took these images, at a distance of about 147,000 miles…
Towards understanding the dynamical evolution of asteroid 25143 Itokawa: constraints from sample analysis
Harold C Connolly, Dante S Lauretta, Kevin J Walsh, Shogo Tachibana, William F Bottke Earth, Planets and Space 2015, 67:12 (27 January 2015) PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Formation and Growth of Bodies in the Early Solar System: From Turbulence Motion to Revolving Motion of the Particles and Small Bodies
T. R. Abdulmyanov 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #1016 PDF LINK
Measurement of Thermal Properties of the Ordinary Chondrites Relevant to Planet-Forming Processes
K. A. McCain, F. J. Ciesla, P. R. Heck, S. S. Rout, M. Pellin, C. Malliakas, J. F. Mitchell 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #2730 PDF LINK
The Vital Roles of Water and Organics in the Early Solar System
C. M. O’D. Alexander 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #2744 PDF LINK
Recycling of an Asteroid via a Comet Inferred from the Chelyabinsk Meteorite
E. Nakamura, T. Kunihiro, H. Kitagawa, K. Kobayashi, T. Ota, C. Sakaguchi, Y. Shimaki, R. Tanaka, T. Tsujimori, M. Yamanaka, G. E. Bebout, V. I. Grokhovsky, O. N. Koroleva, K. D. Litasov, V. Malkovets 46th…
Physical Characterization of Chelyabinsk-Sized (~20 meter) Near-Earth Asteroids: Implications for Impact Hazard, Meteorite Source Bodies, and Human Exploration
V. Reddy, R. R. Landis, J. A. Sanchez, P. S. Hardersen, B. Burt, F. E. DeMeo, M. J. Gaffey, L. Le Corre 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #1289 PDF LINK
The Dynamical Evolution of the Asteroid Belt
Alessandro Morbidelli, Kevin J. Walsh, David P. O’Brien, David A. Minton, William F. Bottke Asteroid IV PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Shock compression of stishovite and melting of silica at planetary interior conditions
M. Millot, N. Dubrovinskaia, A. Černok, S. Blaha, L. Dubrovinsky, D. G. Braun, P. M. Celliers, G. W. Collins, J. H. Eggert, and R. Jeanloz Science , Vol. 347 no. 6220 p. 443 , 23…
How to form planetesimals from mm-sized chondrules and chondrule aggregates
Daniel Carrera, Anders Johansen, Melvyn B. Davies PDF LINK (full text) LINK
Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body
James F. J. Bryson, Claire I. O. Nichols,Julia Herrero-Albillos, Florian Kronast,Takeshi Kasama, Hossein Alimadadi, Gerrit van der Laan, Francis Nimmo, Richard J. Harrison Nature 517, 472–475, (22 January 2015), doi:10.1038/nature14114 LINK (abstract) A rock hard…
Ceres – seen by Dawn spacecraft
The Dawn spacecraft observed Ceres for an hour on Jan. 13, 2015, from a distance of 238,000 miles (383,000 kilometers). A little more than half of its surface was observed at a resolution of 27…
Reactive ammonia in the solar protoplanetary disk and the origin of Earth’s nitrogen
Dennis Harries,Peter Hoppe, Falko Langenhorst Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2339 LINK Supplementary Information (PDF) Yamato 793321
Link between the potentially hazardous asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43 and the Chelyabinsk meteoroid tenuous
Vishnu Reddy, David Vokrouhlický, William F. Bottke, Petr Pravec, Juan A. Sanchez, Bruce L. Gary, Rachel Klima, Edward A. Cloutis, Adrián Galád, Tan Thiam Guan, Kamil Hornoch, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Peter Kušnirák, Lucille Le Corre,…
Mineralogy of some evolved LL chondrites with reference to asteroid materials and solar system evolution
Hiroshi Takeda, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Akira Yamaguchi, Yuzuru Karouji, Yuuki Yazawa Earth, Planets and Space 2015, 67:5 doi:10.1186/s40623-014-0167-x PDF LINK LINK (abstract)
The formation of the solar system
S. Pfalzner, M. B. Davies, M. Gounelle, A. Johansen, C. Muenker, P. Lacerda, S. Portegies Zwart, L. Testi, M. Trieloff, D. Veras PDF (full text) LINK (abstract)
Asteroid (354) eleonora: Plucking an odd duck
Michael J. Gaffey, Vishnu Reddy, Sherry-Fieber-Beyer, Edward Cloutis Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.036 available online 9 January 2015 LINK
Meteoroid impacts onto asteroids: a competitor for Yarkovsky and YORP
Paul A. Wiegert Icarus doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.022 available online 8 January 2015 LINK
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2007 LE: Compositional Link to the Black Chondrite Rose City and Asteroid (6) Hebe
Sherry K. Fieber-Beyer, Michael J. Gaffey, William F. Bottke, Paul S. Hardersen Icarus, available online 24 December 2014 LINK
Gas composition of major volatile elements in protoplanetary discs and its implication for planet formation
Thiabaud Amaury, Marboeuf Ulysse, Alibert Yann, Leya Ingo, Mezger Klaus arXiv:1412.5784 PDF LINK LINK
Origin and history of ureilitic material in the solar system: The view from asteroid 2008 TC3 and the Almahata Sitta meteorite
Goodrich, C. A., Hartmann, W. K., O’Brien, D. P., Weidenschilling, S. J., Wilson, L., Michel, P. and Jutzi, M. (2014) Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12401 LINK
The potentially hazardous asteroid (214869) 2007 PA8: an unweathered L chondrite analogue surface
S. Fornasier, I.N. Belskaya, D. Perna Icarus, available online 17 December 2014 LINK
The mineralogy and space weathering of a regolith grain from 25143 Itokawa and the possibility of annealed solar wind damage, asteroid
Dennis Harries, Falko Langenhorst Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:163 (16 December 2014) doi:10.1186/s40623-014-0163-1 PDF LINK LINK
The multifaceted planetesimal formation process
Anders Johansen, Jürgen Blum, Hidekazu Tanaka, Chris Ormel, Martin Bizzarro, Hans Rickman Final version of chapter in Protostars and Planets VI, University of Arizona Press (2014), eds. H. Beuther, R. Klessen, C. Dullemond, Th. Henning…
Dawn’s new photo of Ceres
taken 1 December 2014 from a distance of 740,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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