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
Discovery of unusual 3 micron bands on some CM chondrite chips of NIPR and possible link to asteroidal surface minerals
Takahiro Hiroi, Hiroshi Kaiden, Naoya Imae, Akira Yamaguchi, Hideyasu Kojima, Sho Sasaki, Moe Matsuoka, Tomoki Nakamura, Carle Pieters PDF LINK
Reflectance spectra measurement of hydrated and dehydrated carbonaceous chondrites using the Near Infrared Spectrometer on Hayabusa 2 spacecraft
Tomoki Nakamura (Tohoku Univ), Takahiro Iwata (JAXA), Kohei Kitasato (Univ of Aizu), Masanao Abe (JAXA), Takahito Osawa (JAEA), Moe Matsuoka (Tohoku Univ), Yusuke Nakauchi (JAXA), Takehiko Arai (JAXA), Mutsumi Komatsu (Graduate Univ for Advanced Studies),…
Bolide Events 1994-2013 world map
New Map Shows Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population LINK A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors Brown et…
The OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations.
Lauretta, D. S., Bartels, A. E., Barucci, M. A., Bierhaus, E. B., Binzel, R. P., Bottke, W. F., Campins, H., Chesley, S. R., Clark, B. C., Clark, B. E., Cloutis, E. A., Connolly, H. C.,…
Was the Chelyabinsk meteoroid a fragment of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (86039) 1999 NC43?
Reddy, Vishnu; Sanchez, Juan; Klima, Rachel; Cloutis, Edward A.; Izawa, Matthew R.; Le Corre, Lucille; Mann, Paul American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #46, #213.10 LINK
Can We Distinguish Between Shock-Darkened and Space-Weathered Asteroids?
Kohout, Tomas; Penttila, Antti; Gritsevich, Maria; Britt, Daniel; Reddy, Vishnu; Mann, Paul; Haloda, Jakub; Halodova, Patricie; Grokhovsky, Viktor; Yakovlev, Grigoriy; Cuda, Jan; Filip, Jan; Muinonen, Karri; Zboril, Radek American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #46, #506.02…
Mineralogy of V-type asteroids as a constraining tool of their past history
S.F.A. Batista, T.M. Seixas, M.A. Salgueiro da Silva, R.M.G. de Albuquerque Planetary and Space Science DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.10.012 available online 4 November 2014 LINK
Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite–like source
Adam R. Sarafian,Sune G. Nielsen,Horst R. Marschall,Francis M. McCubbin, and Brian D. Monteleone Science 31 October 2014: Vol. 346 no. 6209 pp. 623-626 DOI: 10.1126/science.1256717 LINK Materials and Methods – Supplementary Text (PDF) Earth’s Water…
Eight billion asteroids in the Oort cloud
Andrew Shannon, Alan P. Jackson, Dimitri Veras, Mark Wyatt Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal (Submitted on 27 Oct 2014) PDF LINK LINK
Linear spectropolarimetry: a new diagnostic tool for the classification and characterization of asteroids
Bagnulo S, Cellino A,Sterzik MF (2014) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society MNRAS (January 01, 2015) 446 (1): L11-L15. doi: first published online October 22, 2014 LINK
In situ biological Resources: Soluble Nutrients and Electrolytes in carbonaceous asteroids/meteorites. Implications for astroecology and space populations
In situ biological Resources: Soluble Nutrients and Electrolytes in carbonaceous asteroids/meteorites. Implications for astroecology and space populations Michael N. Mautner Planetary and Space Science DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2014.10.001 In Press, Available online 16 October 2014 LINK
Aqueous Alteration on Asteroids: Linking the Mineralogy and Spectroscopy of CM and CI Chondrites
M.M. McAdam, J.M. Sunshine, K.T. Howard, T.M. McCoy Icarus DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.041 LINK Abstract CM/CI meteorites range in degree of aqueous alteration suggesting differences in initially accreted materials including water ice and possible spatial heterogeneities within…
Where Did the Ureilite Parent Body Accrete? Constraints from Chemical and Isotopic Compositions
Cyrena Goodrich, David P. O’Brien Abstract: Almahata Sitta and other polymict ureilites contain a remarkable diversity of materials, including EH, EL, OC, R- and CB chondrites, in addition to the dominant ureilitic material [1]. These…
Recent multi-kiloton impact events: are they truly random?
C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos arXiv:1409.0452 revised 16 Sept 2014 ; Printed 17 September 2014 PDF LINK LINK It is customarily assumed that Earth-striking meteoroids are completely random, and that…
Painted Stone: Asteroids in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, by Alex Parker
VIDEO (FULL HD) LINK This animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with colors illustrating the compositional diversity measured by the SDSS five-color…
Defining the Flora Family: Orbital Properties, Reflectance Properties and Age
Melissa J. Dykhuis, Lawrence Molnar, Samuel J. Van Kooten, Richard Greenberg Icarus Available online 16 September 2014 LINK
Fragmentation of colliding planetesimals with water content
Thomas I. Maindl, Rudolf Dvorak, Christoph Schäfer, Roland Speith Submitted on 8 Sep 2014 Submitted to IAU Symposium 310 Proceedings 4 pages, 2 figures PDF LINK LINK We investigate the outcome of collisions of Ceres-sized…
Composition, Mineralogy, and Porosity of Multiple Asteroid Systems from Visible and Near-infrared Spectral Data
Sean S. Lindsay, Franck Marchis, Joshua P. Emery, J. Emilio Enriquez, Marcelo Assafin Accepted to Icarus Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics arXiv:1409.0359 PDF LINK LINK We provide a taxonomic and compositional characterization of Multiple Asteroid…
Sequential analysis of carbonaceous materials in Hayabusa-returned samples for the determination of their origin
Masayuki Uesugi, Hiroshi Naraoka, Motoo Ito, Hikaru Yabuta, Fumio Kitajima, Yoshinori Takano, Hajime Mita, Ichiro Ohnishi, Yoko Kebukawa, Toru Yada, Yuzuru Karouji, Yukihiro Ishibashi, Takaaki Okada and Masanao Abe Earth, Planets and Space 2014, 66:102…
Selecting asteroids for a targeted spectroscopic survey
D.A. Oszkiewicz, T. Kwiatkowski, T. Tomov, M. Birlan, S. Geier, A. Penttilä, M. Polińska Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) arXiv:1408.4288, submitted 19 Aug 2014
Chromium Valences in Ureilite Olivine and Implications for Ureilite Petrogenesis
Goodrich CA, Sutton SR, Wirick S and Jercinovic MJ (in press) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Volume 122, 1 December 2013, Pages 280–305 [doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.08.003] LINK
Correlated accretion ages and ε54Cr of meteorite parent bodies and the evolution of the solar nebula
Sugiura N and Fujiya W (in press) Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 49: 772–787. doi: 10.1111/maps.12292 LINK
Space weathering simulations through controlled growth of iron nanoparticles on olivine
Kohouta T et al. (in press) Icarus Volume 237, 15 July 2014, Pages 75–83 LINK
Chelyabinsk meteorite explains unusual spectral properties of Baptistina Asteroid Family
Vishnu Reddy et al. Icarus Volume 237, 15 July 2014, Pages 116–130 LINK
Space weathering of silicate regoliths with various FeO contents: New insights from laser irradiation experiments and theoretical spectral simulations
Moroz LV, Starukhina LV, Rout SS, Sasaki S, Jörn Helbert J, Baither D, Bischoff B and Hiesinger H (2014) Icarus Volume 235, June 2014, Pages 187–206 LINK
Orbit and Bulk Density of the OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Chesley et al. Icarus Volume 235, June 2014, Pages 5–22 LINK
Chemodynamical Deuterium Fractionation in the Early Solar Nebula: The Origin of Water on Earth and in Asteroids and Comets
Albertsson T, Semenov D and Henning Th (2014) The Astrophysical Journal 784:39 T. Albertsson et al. 2014 ApJ 784 39. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/784/1/39 LINK
A criterion to classify asteroids and comets based on the orbital parameters
Tancredi G. Icarus Volume 234, 15 May 2014, Pages 66–80 LINK
Formation and Physical Properties of Asteroids
Michel P (2014) Elements 10:19-24. doi: 10.2113/gselements.10.1.19 v. 10 no. 1 p. 19-24 LINK
Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy
Fornasier S, Lantz C, Barucci MA and Lazzarin M. Icarus Volume 233, 1 May 2014, Pages 163–178 LINK
I-Xe ages of Campo del Cielo silicates as a record of the complex early history of the IAB parent body
Pravdivtseva, O., Meshik, A., Hohenberg, C. M. and Kurat, G. (2013) Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 2480–2490. doi: 10.1111/maps.12233 LINK
Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap Asteroids II: Probable and Plausible Parent Bodies; Primitive and Differentiated
Fieber-Beyer SK and Gaffey MJ Icarus Volume 229, February 2014, Pages 99–108 LINK
Transmission infrared spectra (2-25 microns) of carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM, CV-CK, CR, C2 ungrouped): mineralogy, water, and asteroidal processes
Beck P, Garenne A, Quirico E, Bonal L, Montes-Hernandez G, Moynier F and Schmitt B Icarus Volume 229, February 2014, Pages 263–277 LINK
Mineralogy, reflectance spectra, and physical properties of the Chelyabinsk LL5 chondrite – insight into shock-induced changes in asteroid regoliths
Kohout T, Gritsevich M, Grokhovsky VI, Yakovlev GA, Haloda J, Halodova P, Michallik RM, Penttilä A and Muinonen K Icarus Volume 228, 15 January 2014, Pages 78–85 LINK
The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets
C. M. O’D. Alexander, R. Bowden, M. L. Fogel, K. T. Howard, C. D. K. Herd, L. R. Nittler Published Online July 12 2012 Science 10 August 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6095 pp. 721-723 DOI:…
