The Chelyabinsk main mass today

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A critical analysis of shock models for chondrule formation

Sebastian M. Stammler, Cornelis P. Dullemond   Icarus, Volume 242, 1 November 2014, Pages 1–10 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.07.024 Available online 1 August 2014 LINK

Chelyabinsk triptych completed

After one year the Ural painter Albert Rastjapi / Альберт Растяпи has completed his Chelyabinsk triptych LEFT PANEL CENTRAL PANEL RIGHT PANEL LINK (Original) English machine translation: LINK

Records of the Moon-forming impact and the 470 Ma disruption of the L chondrite parent body in the asteroid belt from U-Pb apatite ages of Novato (L6)

Yin, Q.-Z., Zhou, Q., Li, Q.-L., Li, X.-H., Liu, Y., Tang, G.-Q., Krot, A. N. and Jenniskens, P. (2014) Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.1234 LINK Novato, a newly observed fall in the San Francisco…

More chips off of Asteroid (4) Vesta: characterization of eight Vestoids and their HED meteorite analogs

Paul S. Hardersen, Vishnu Reddy, Rachel Roberts, Amy Mainzer Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, arXiv:1408.2731 Icarus, accepted for publication, August 12, 2014 PDF-LINK

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

No nebular magnetization in the Allende CV carbonaceous chondrite

R.R. Fu, E.A. Lima, B.P. Weiss Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 404, 15 October 2014, Pages 54–66 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.014 LINK

ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres

LINK Nature 512, 234–235 (21 August 2014) doi:10.1038/512234d Published online 20 August 2014 Comets contain some of the oldest materials in the Solar System. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, Martin Cordiner…

Phosphate Minerals in LL Chondrites: A Record of the Action of Fluids During Metamorphism on Ordinary Chondrite Parent Bodies

Jones RH, McCubbin FM, Dreeland L, Guan Y, Burger PV and Shearer CK (in press) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Volume 132, 1 May 2014, Pages 120–140 LINK

Metamorphosed calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in CK carbonaceous chondrites

Chaumard N, Devouard B, Bouvier A and Wadhwa M (in press) Meteoritics & Planetary Science Volume 49, Issue 3, pages 419–452, March 2014 LINK Excluding metamorphic features, the similarity in nature and abundance of CAIs…

Dawn; the Vesta–HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites, diogenites, and howardites

McSween HY et al. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 2090–2104. doi: 10.1111/maps.12108 LINK

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