Estimate of Water and Hydroxyl Abundance on Asteroid (16) Psyche from JWST DataOPEN ACCESS
Stephanie G. Jarmak, Tracy M. Becker, Charles E. Woodward, Casey I. Honniball, Andrew S. Rivkin, Margaret M. McAdam, Zoe A. Landsman, Saverio Cambioni, Thomas G. Müller, Driss Takir, Kurt D. Retherford, Anicia Arredondo and Linda…
Evidence against water delivery by impacts within 10 million years of planetesimal formationOPEN ACCESS
B.G. Rider-Stokes, A. Stephant, M. Anand, I.A. Franchi, X. Zhao, L.F. White, A. Yamaguchi, R.C. Greenwood, S.L. Jackson Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 642, 15 September 2024, 118860 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “The quenched (rapidly-cooled)…
Different arrival times of CM and CI-like bodies from the outer Solar System to the asteroid beltOPEN ACCESS
Sarah Anderson, Pierre Vernazza, Miroslav Brož Nature PREPRINT under review, Version 1, posted 28 May, 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Understanding the provenance of CI and CM chondrites, the most primitive materials in our…
Identification of Earth’s late accretion by large impactors through mass independent Cr isotopes
Yogita Kadlag, Aryavart Anand, Mario Fischer-Gödde, Klaus Mezger , Kristoffer Szilas , Steven Goderis, Ingo Leya IcarusAvailable online 31 May 2024, 116143 LINK “Highlights “The late addition of extra-terrestrial material may represent an important source…
Hydrogen in magnetite from asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
J. Aléon, S. Mostefaoui, H. Bureau, D. Vangu, H. Khodja, K. Nagashima, N. Kawasaki, Y. Abe, C. M. O’D. Alexander, S. Amari, Y. Amelin, K. Bajo, M. Bizzarro, A. Bouvier, R. W. Carlson, M. Chaussidon,…
The water content of CM carbonaceous chondrite falls and finds, and their susceptibility to terrestrial contaminationOPEN ACCESS
Martin R. Lee, Lydia J. Hallis, Luke Daly, Adrian J. Boyce MAPSVersion of Record online: 12 November 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “CM carbonaceous chondrites can be used to constrain the abundance and H…
Bulk mineralogy, water abundance, and hydrogen isotope composition of unequilibrated ordinary chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Helen Grant, Romain Tartèse, Rhian Jones, Laurette Piani, Yves Marrocchi, Ashley King, Thomas Rigaudier MAPSFirst published: 19 July 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin and transport of water in the early Solar System…
I/Pu reveals Earth mainly accreted from volatile-poor differentiated planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Weiyi Liu, Yigang Zhang, François. L. H. Tissot, Guillaume Avice, Zhilin Ye, and Qing-Zhu Yin Science Advances5 Jul 2023Vol 9, Issue 27 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The observation that mid-ocean ridge basalts had ~3×…
The high-temperature origin of hydrogen in enstatite chondrite chondrules and implications for the origin of terrestrial water
Dorian Thomassin, Laurette Piani, Johan Villeneuve, Marie-Camille Caumon, Nordine Bouden, Yves Marrocchi Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 616, 15 August 2023, 118225, Available online 30 May 2023 LINK “Due to their numerous isotopic similarities to…
Upper limits of water contents in olivine and orthopyroxene of equilibrated chondrites and several achondritesOPEN ACCESS
Dennis Harries, Xuchao Zhao, Ian Franchi MAPSVersion of Record online: 13 April 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hydroxyl defects in nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs) were potential carriers of water in the early Solar System…
A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by impact glass beadsOPEN ACCESS
Huicun He, Jianglong Ji, Yue Zhang, Sen Hu, Yangting Lin, Hejiu Hui, Jialong Hao, Ruiying Li, Wei Yang, Hengci Tian, Chi Zhang, Mahesh Anand, Romain Tartèse, Lixin Gu, Jinhua Li, Di Zhang, Qian Mao, Lihui…
Degassing of early-formed planetesimals restricted water delivery to Earth
M. E. Newcombe, S. G. Nielsen, L. D. Peterson, J. Wang, C. M. O’D. Alexander, A. R. Sarafian, K. Shimizu, L. R. Nittler & A. J. Irving NaturePublished: 15 March 2023 LINK “The timing of…
Water in Asteroid Ryugu is Deuterium-Rich Compared to Earth and CI Chondrites
Nittler L. R.* Barosch J. Wang J. Alexander C. M. O’D. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2023abstract [#1411] Use oxygen ions / Measure Ryugu water / Deuterium-rich!
Early water delivery to terrestrial planet regions during the stages of Jupiter’s formation and migration in the Grand Tack modelOPEN ACCESS
Masahiro Ogihara, Hidenori Genda, Yasuhito Sekine accepted for publication in PSJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS)6-minute video summary Update (13 February 2023): The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 4, Number 2LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The formation and…
Laboratory measurements of anhydrous minerals mixed with hyperfine hydrated minerals to support interpretation of infrared reflectance observations of planetary surfaces
G. Poggiali, S. Iannini Lelarge, J.R. Brucato, M.A. Barucci, M. Masotta, M.A. Corazzi, T. Fornaro, A.J. Brown, L. Mandon, N. Randazzo IcarusAvailable online 29 January 202 LINK “Identification of water in our Solar System is…
Late delivery of exotic chromium to the crust of Mars by water-rich carbonaceous asteroidOPEN ACCESS
Ke Zhu, , Martin Schiller, Lu Pan, Nikitha Susan Saji, Kirsten K. Larsen, Elsa Amsellem, Courtney Rundhaug, Paolo Sossi, Ingo Leya, Frederic Moynier, and Martin Bizzarro Science Advances, 16 Nov 2022, Vol 8, Issue 46…
Controls on determining the bulk water content of the Moon
Ananya Mallik, Sabrina Schwinger, Arkadeep Roy, Pranabendu Moitra MAPSVersion of Record online: 15 November 2022 LINK “The Moon is much wetter than previously thought. The estimated bulk H2O concentrations based on the analyses of H2O…
The H2O content of the ureilite parent body
Liam D. Peterson, Megan E. Newcombe, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Jianhua Wang, Adam R. Sarafian, Addi Bischoff, Sune G. Nielsen Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 2 November 2022 LINK “The fate…
3μm Spectroscopic Survey of Near-Earth AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
L. E. McGraw, J. P. Emery, C. A. Thomas, A. R. Rivkin, N. R. Wigton and M. McAdam Astrophysical Journal Letters, Published 27 October 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are excellent…
Chang’E-5 samples reveal high water content in lunar mineralsOPEN ACCESS
Chuanjiao Zhou, Hong Tang, Xiongyao Li, Xiaojia Zeng, Bing Mo, Wen Yu, Yanxue Wu, Xiandi Zeng, Jianzhong Liu & Yuanyun Wen Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 5336Published: 10 September 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN…
Coordinated neutron and X-ray computed tomography of meteorites: Detection and distribution of hydrogen-bearing materials
Allan H. Treiman, Jacob M. LaManna, Daniel S. Hussey, Isabella deClue, Lawrence M. Anovitz MAPSVersion of Record online: 29 August 2022 LINK “The presence and distribution of hydrogen-bearing materials in meteorites are important constraints on…
Exploring refractory organics in extraterrestrial particlesOPEN ACCESS
Alexey Potapov, Maria Elisabetta Palumbo, Zelia Dionnet, Andrea Longobardo, Cornelia Jäger, Giuseppe Baratta, Alessandra Rotundi, Thomas Henning accepted for publication in ApJ LINK Update (23 August 2022): The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 935, Number 2Published: 23…
Evidence of water on the lunar surface from Chang’E-5 in-situ spectra and returned samplesOPEN ACCESS
Jianjun Liu, Bin Liu, Xin Ren, Chunlai Li, Rong Shu, Lin Guo, Songzheng Yu, Qin Zhou, Dawei Liu, Xingguo Zeng, Xingye Gao, Guangliang Zhang, Wei Yan, Hongbo Zhang, Lihui Jia, Shifeng Jin, Chunhua Xu, Xiangjin…
Hydrogen emission from meteors and meteorites: Mapping traces of H2O molecules and organic compounds in small Solar system bodiesOPEN ACCESS
Pavol Matlovič, Adriana Pisarcčíková, Juraj Tóth, Pavel Mach, Peter Čermák, Stefan Loehle, Leonard Kornoš, Ludovic Ferrière, Jiří Šilha, David Leiser, Ranjith Ravichandran Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stac927 LINK Update (2 May 2022):…
Asteroids and Life: How Special Is the Solar System?OPEN ACCESS
Rebecca G. Martin and Mario Livio The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 926, Number 2Published: 18 February 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Asteroid impacts with Earth may have played an essential role in the emergence…
Determination of the initial hydrogen isotopic composition of the solar system
J. Aléon, D. Lévy, A. Aléon-Toppani, H. Bureau, H. Khodja & F. Brisset Nature Astronomy (2022)Published: 03 February 2022 LINK Supplementary information “The initial isotopic composition of water in the Solar System is of paramount…
New evidence for wet accretion of inner solar system planetesimals from meteorites Chelyabinsk and BenenitraOPEN ACCESS
Ziliang Jin, Maitrayee Bose, Tim Lichtenberg, Gijs Mulders accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (28 December 2021): LINK (OPEN ACCESS) / PDF (OPEN ACCESS)The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 2,…
Solar wind contributions to Earth’s oceans
Luke Daly, Martin R. Lee, Lydia J. Hallis, Hope A. Ishii, John P. Bradley, Phillip. A. Bland, David W. Saxey, Denis Fougerouse, William D. A. Rickard, Lucy V. Forman, Nicholas E. Timms, Fred Jourdan, Steven…
Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer MoonOPEN ACCESS
René Heller, Jan-Peter Duda, Max Winkler, Joachim Reitner & Laurent Gizon PalZ (2021)Published: 24 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Geological evidence suggests liquid water near the Earth’s surface as early as 4.4 gigayears…
Experimental chondrite–water reactions under reducing and low-temperature hydrothermal conditions: Implications for incipient aqueous alteration in planetesimals
Sakiko Kikuchi, Takazo Shibuya, Mariko Abe, Katsuyuki Uematsu Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 11 November 2021 LINK “The presence of hydrous minerals in carbonaceous chondrites has been considered as an important evidence for the former…
The pre-atmospheric hydrogen inventory of CM carbonaceous chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Martin R. Lee, Benjamin E. Cohen, Adrian J. Boyce, Lydia J. Hallis, Luke Daly Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 19 June 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Up to half of…
How much water was delivered from the asteroid belt to the Earth after its formation?OPEN ACCESS
Rebecca G. Martin, Mario Livio Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Earth contains between one and ten oceans of water, including water within the mantle, where one ocean is the mass…
Origin of hydrogen isotopic variations in chondritic water and organicsOPEN ACCESS
Laurette Piani, Yves Marrocchi, Lionel G. Vacher, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Martin Bizzarro Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 567, 1 August 2021 LINK Update (25 May 2021): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The water D/H ratios are…
Erosion of volatiles by micro-meteoroid bombardment on Ceres, and comparison to the Moon and MercuryOPEN ACCESS
Petr Pokorný, Erwan Mazarico, Norbert Schorghofer accepted to PSJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “(1) Ceres, the largest reservoir of water in the main-belt, was recently visited by the Dawn spacecraft that revealed several areas bearing H2O-ice…
Discovery of primitive CO2-bearing fluid in an aqueously altered carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Akira Tsuchiyama, Akira Miyake, Satoshi Okuzumi, Akira Kitayama, Jun Kawano, Kentaro Uesugi, Akihisa Takeuchi, Tsukasa Nakano, Michael Zolensky Science Advances, 21 Apr 2021:Vol. 7, no. 17, eabg9707DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9707 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Materials…
Hydrogen isotopic exchange kinetics between organic matter and water: Implications for chemical evolution during meteorite parent body processing
Yoko Kebukawa, Sachio Kobayashi, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Ying Wang, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, George D. Cody Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 09 March 2021 LINK “The large variations in hydrogen isotope ratios found in insoluble organic…
Organic matter and water from asteroid ItokawaOPEN ACCESS
Q. H. S. Chan, A. Stephant, I. A. Franchi, X. Zhao, R. Brunetto, Y. Kebukawa, T. Noguchi, D. Johnson, M. C. Price, K. H. Harriss, M. E. Zolensky & M. M. Grady Scientific Reports 11…
Molecular water detected on the sunlit Moon by SOFIAOPEN ACCESS
C. I. Honniball, P. G. Lucey, S. Li, S. Shenoy, T. M. Orlando, C. A. Hibbitts, D. M. Hurley & W. M. Farrell Nature Astronomy , 1–7 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Widespread hydration was…
Water on Mars: Insights from apatite in regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034
Jemma Davidson, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Richard L. Hervig, Alice Stephant Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 552, 15 December 2020, 116597 LINK “Highlights • We studied NWA 7034, a regolith breccia representative of the martian crust.• Water…
Earth’s water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites
Laurette Piani, Yves Marrocchi, Thomas Rigaudier, Lionel G. Vacher, Dorian Thomassin, Bernard Marty Science 28 Aug 2020:Vol. 369, Issue 6507, pp. 1110-1113DOI: 10.1126/science.aba1948 LINK Supplementary Materials (PDF) “The origin of Earth’s water remains unknown. Enstatite…
Tardi-magmatic precipitation of Martian Fe/Mg-rich clay minerals via igneous differentiationOPEN ACCESS
J.-C. Viennet, S. Bernard, C. Le Guillou, V. Sautter, P. Schmitt-Kopplin, O. Beyssac, S. Pont, B. Zanda, R. Hewins, L. Remusat Geochemical Perspectives Letters 14, 47–52 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mars is seen as…
The Non-carbonaceous–Carbonaceous Meteorite DichotomyOPEN ACCESS
T. Kleine, G. Budde, C. Burkhardt, T. S. Kruijer, E. A. Worsham, A. Morbidelli & F. Nimmo Space Science Reviews, Volume 216, Article number: 55 (2020) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The isotopic dichotomy between…
Multiple early-formed water reservoirs in the interior of Mars
Jessica J. Barnes, Francis M. McCubbin, Alison R. Santos, James M. D. Day, Jeremy W. Boyce, Susanne P. Schwenzer, Ulrich Ott, Ian A. Franchi, Scott Messenger, Mahesh Anand & Carl B. Agee Nature Geoscience (2020)…
A Water-Rich Proto-Planet Inferred by Tridymite and Pyroxene in the Oldest Igneous Achondrite Northwest Africa 11119
A. Cernok, K. Tait, M. Anand, I. Nicklin, L. White, T. Kizovski, X. Zhao, I. A. Franchi 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2020), Abstract #1900 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 11119…
Origin of Earth’s water: sources and constraintsOPEN ACCESS
Karen Meech, Sean N. Raymond Review; Chapter to appear in Planetary Astrobiology PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We review the state of knowledge on the origin of Earth’s water. Empirical constraints come from chemical and isotopic measurements…
Primordial water and dust of the Solar System: Insights from in-situ oxygen measurements of CI chondrites
Maxime Piralla, Yves Marrocchi, Maximilien J. Verdier-Paoletti, Lionel G. Vacher, Johan Villeneuve, Laurette Piani, David V. Bekaert, Matthieu Gounelle Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 November 2019 LINK “As the…
Regenerative water sources on surfaces of airless bodies
Cheng Zhu, Sándor Góbi, Matthew J. Abplanalp, Robert Frigge, Jeffrey J. Gillis-Davis, Gerardo Dominguez, Katarina Miljković & Ralf I. Kaiser Nature Astronomy (2019) Published: 07 October 2019 LINK “Spectroscopic signatures of water and hydroxyl radicals…
Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 bOPEN ACCESS
Angelos Tsiaras, Ingo P. Waldmann, Giovanna Tinetti, Jonathan Tennyson & Sergey N. Yurchenko Nature Astronomy (2019) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “In the past decade, observations from space and the ground have found water to be…
Origin and abundances of H2O in the terrestrial planets, Moon, and asteroids
Francis M. McCubbin, Jessica J. Barnes Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 526, 15 November 2019, 115771 LINK “Highlights • Interstellar ices were added to the inner and outer Solar System within 4 Ma of…
Record of low-temperature aqueous alteration of Martian zircon during the late AmazonianOPEN ACCESS
Martin Guitreau & Jessica Flahaut Nature Communications 10, 1–9 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Several lines of evidence support the presence of liquid water on Mars at different times. Among those, hydrated minerals testify…
Determination of the water content and D/H ratio of the martian mantle by unraveling degassing and crystallization effects in nakhlites
A.H. Peslier, R. Hervig, S. Yang, M. Humayun, J.J. Barnes, A.J. Irving Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 May 2019 LINK “Knowing the distribution and origin of water in terrestrial planets…
New clues to ancient water on Itokawa
Ziliang Jin, Maitrayee Bose Science Advances 01 May 2019: Vol. 5, no. 5, eaav8106 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav8106 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We performed the first measurements of hydrogen isotopic composition and water content in…
Accretion of water in carbonaceous chondrites: current evidence and implications for the delivery of water to early EarthOPEN ACCESS
Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Albert Rimola, Safoura Tanbakouei, Victoria Cabedo, Martin Lee Presented in the International ESAC workshop “Ices in the Solar System” To be published in Space Science Reviews (SPAC-D-18-00036R3) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (12…
On water delivery in the inner solar nebula: Monte Carlo simulations of forsterite hydrationOPEN ACCESS
Martina D’Angelo, Stephanie Cazaux, Inga Kamp, Wing-Fai Thi, Peter Woitke resubmitted to A&A PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Endogenous or exogenous, dry or wet, various scenarios have been so far depicted for the origin of water on…
The delivery of water by impacts from planetary accretion to presentOPEN ACCESS
R. Terik Daly, Peter H. Schultz Science Advances 25 Apr 2018: Vol. 4, no. 4, eaar2632 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar2632 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Dynamical models and observational evidence indicate that water-rich asteroids and comets…
Oxygen isotopic evidence for accretion of Earth’s water before a high-energy Moon-forming giant impactOPEN ACCESS
By Richard C. Greenwood, Jean-Alix Barrat, Martin F. Miller, Mahesh Anand, Nicolas Dauphas, Ian A. Franchi, Patrick Sillard, Natalie A. Starkey Science Advances 28 Mar 2018: Vol. 4, no. 3, eaao5928 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao5928 LINK (OPEN…
Variations in the amount of water ice on Ceres’ surface suggest a seasonal water cycleOPEN ACCESS
Andrea Raponi, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Alessandro Frigeri, Eleonora Ammannito, Mauro Ciarniello, Michelangelo Formisano, Jean-Philippe Combe, Gianfranco Magni, Federico Tosi, Filippo Giacomo Carrozzo, Sergio Fonte, Marco Giardino, Steven P. Joy, Carol A. Polanskey, Marc D….
A dual origin for water in carbonaceous asteroids revealed by CM chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Laurette Piani, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Laurent Remusat Submitted manuscript for publication in Nature Astronomy – Version February, 2 2018 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Carbonaceous asteroids represent the principal source of water in the inner Solar System and…
Origin and abundance of water in carbonaceous asteroids
Yves Marrocchi, David V. Bekaert, Laurette Piani Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 482, 15 January 2018, Pages 23-32 LINK Highlights • Bulk, matrix and fayalite grains of CV chondrites define a continuous trend. •…
Oxygen isotopic ratios of primordial water in carbonaceous chondrites
Wataru Fujiya Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 481, 1 January 2018, Pages 264–272 LINK “Highlights • The O isotopic ratio of the primordial water in CM chondrites is determined. • The water contents of…
A history of violence: insights into post-accretionary heating in carbonaceous chondrites from volatile element abundances, Zn isotopes, and water contentsOPEN ACCESS
Brandon Mahan, Frédéric Moynier, Pierre Beck, Emily A. Pringle, Julien Siebert Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 September 2017 Update (19 October 2017): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Carbonaceous chondrites (CCs)…
The production rate of cosmogenic deuterium at the Moon’s surface
Evelyn Füri, Etienne Deloule, Reto Trappitsch Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 474, 15 September 2017, Pages 76–82 LINK “Highlights • The deuterium content of olivines from eight mare basalts is determined by SIMS. •…
Origin of water in the inner Solar System: planetesimals scattered inward during Jupiter and Saturn’s rapid gas accretionOPEN ACCESS
Sean N. Raymond, Andre Izidoro Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 June 2017 (updated 6 July 2017) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Highlights • The water-rich bodies interior to Jupiter’s orbit – both the…
Water on Asteroids: The Curious Case of R-Chondrite Miller Range 11207
Gross J. * Treiman A. H. Connolly H. C. Jr. 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6145] abstract (PDF) “MIL 11207 is a R-6 chondrite and contains ~12 vol% OH-bearing minerals — amphibole,…
Water content in the Martian mantle: a Nakhla perspective
Franz A. Weis, Jeremy J. Bellucci, Henrik Skogby, Roland Stalder, Alexander A. Nemchin, Martin J. Whitehouse Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 1 June 2017 LINK “Water contents of the Martian…
The Bulk Valence State of Fe and the Origin of Water in Chondrites
S. Sutton, C.M.O’D. Alexander, A. Bryant, A. Lanzirotti, M. Newville, E.A. Cloutis Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 May 2017 LINK “There is abundant petrologic evidence for the oxidation of…
The search for and analysis of direct samples of early Solar System aqueous fluids
Michael E. Zolensky, Robert J. Bodnar, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Shoichi Itoh, Marc Fries, Andrew Steele, Queenie H.-S. Chan, Akira Tsuchiyama, Yoko Kebukawa, Motoo Ito Review article Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2017 375 20150386 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2015.0386….
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…
A Dual Origin for Water in the CM Carbonaceous Chondrites
L. Piani, H. Yurimoto, L. Remusat 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2017), Abstract #1203 PDF
Ruthenium isotopic evidence for an inner Solar System origin of the late veneer
Mario Fischer-Gödde & Thorsten Kleine Nature 541, 525–527 doi:10.1038/nature 21045 Published online: 25 January 2017 LINK “The excess of highly siderophile elements in the Earth’s mantle is thought to reflect the addition of primitive meteoritic…
Water in type I chondrules of Paris CM chondrite
A. Stephant, L. Remusat, F. Robert Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 November 2016 LINK “Hydrogen isotopic ratio and water concentration have been measured with the NanoSIMS in olivine, pyroxene…
Water in the Martian interior—The geodynamical perspective.
Breuer, D., Plesa, A.-C., Tosi, N. and Grott, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12727 LINK “Petrological analysis of the Martian meteorites suggests that rheologically significant amounts of water are present in the Martian mantle….
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…
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…
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…
Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs
Katharine L. Robinson, Jessica J. Barnes, Kazuhide Nagashima, Aurélien Thomen, Ian A. Franchi, Gary R. Huss, Mahesh Anand, G. Jeffrey Taylor Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 May 2016 LINK…
The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites.OPEN ACCESS
Barrett, T. J., Barnes, J. J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., Franchi, I. A., Greenwood, R. C., Charlier, B. L. A. and Grady, M. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12649 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
D/H-Ratio and Microstructure of a Strongly Hydrated Microclast in the Rumuruti Chondrite Northwest Africa 6828
A. Greshake, P. Hoppe, R. Wirth 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1026 PDF
The survivability of phyllosilicates and carbonates impacting Stardust Al foils: Facilitating the search for cometary water.
Wozniakiewicz, P. J., Ishii, H. A., Kearsley, A. T., Bradley, J. P., Price, Mark. C., Burchell, M. J., Teslich, N. and Cole, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12568 LINK
The diurnal cycle of water ice on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
M. C. De Sanctis, F. Capaccioni, M. Ciarniello, G. Filacchione, M. Formisano + et al. Nature 525, 500–503 (24 September 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature14869 LINK “Observations of cometary nuclei have revealed a very limited amount of…
Water delivery to the Moon by asteroidal and cometary impacts
V.V. Svetsov, V.V. Shuvalov Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 September 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.09.011 LINK “Recent spacecraft missions detected presence of hydroxyl or water over large areas on the lunar surface….
Chronology of Aqueous Activity and Sources of Water on the Chondrite Parent Bodies: Testing the Grand Tack Model
Krot A. N. * Doyle P. M. Nagashima K. Jogo K. Wakita S. Ciesla F. J. Alexander C. M. O’D. Bonal L. Fujiya W. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5150 abstract…
New Constraints on the Water Budget in the Martian Breccia Meteorite NWA 7533
Remusat L. * Zanda B. Beck P. Lorand J.-P. Pont S. Leroux H. Hewins R. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5125 abstract (PDF)
Evidence in Tissint for recent subsurface water on Mars
Yang Chen, Yang Liu, Yunbin Guan, John M. Eiler, Chi Ma, George R. Rossman, Lawrence A. Taylor Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 425, 1 September 2015, Pages 55–63 LINK We report unambiguous chemical evidence…
Incorporation of water into olivine during nebular condensation: Insights from density functional theory and thermodynamics, and implications for phyllosilicate formation and terrestrial water inventory
Abu Asaduzzaman, Krishna Muralidharan and Jibamitra Ganguly Meteoritics & Planetary Science doi: 10.1111/maps.12409 Article first published online: 6 MAR 2015 LINK
Volatile Delivery to Planets from Water-rich Planetesimals around Low Mass Stars
Fred J. Ciesla, Gijs D. Mulders, Ilaria Pascucci, Daniel Apai accepted to ApJ 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
Micron-scale D/H heterogeneity in chondrite matrices: a signature of the pristine solar system water?
Laurette Piani, François Robert, Laurent Remusat Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 415, 1 April 2015, Pages 154–164 arXiv:1502.01067 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.039 PDF LINK LINK LINK
Short-term variability on the surface of (1) Ceres. A changing amount of water ice?
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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
Water in Martian Meteorites: Oxygen Isotope Compositions
O. V. Maltsev, K. Ziegler, Z. D. Sharp, C. B. Agee 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #2268 PDF LINK
Geomorphological evidence for transient water flow on Vesta
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Importance of water and organics in the early Solar System: From interstellar inheritance to planet formation
Conel M.O’D. Alexander (DTM, Carnegie Institution of Washington) PDF LINK
Isotopic compositions of asteroidal liquid water trapped in fluid inclusions of chondrites
Hisayoshi Yurimoto (Hokkaido Univ.), Shoichi Itoh (Hokkaido Univ.), Michael Zolensky (NASA), Minoru Kusakabe (Univ. Toyama), Akiya Karen (Toray) and Robert Bodnar (Virginia Tech) PDF LINK
Dynamic water loss of antigorite by impact process
Toshimori Sekine, Tomoaki Kimura, Takamichi Kobayashi, Tsutomu Mashimo Icarus, available online 25 November 2014 PDF LINK
Water in the Moon’s interior: Truth and consequences
Erik H. Hauri, Alberto E. Saal, Malcolm J. Rutherford, James A. Van Orman Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 409, 1 January 2015, Pages 252–264 PDF LINK (open access) LINK (open access)
Widespread surface weathering on early Mars: A case for a warmer and wetter climate
John Carter, Damien Loizeau, Nicolas Mangold, François Poulet, Jean-Pierre Bibring Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.11.011, available online 15 November 2014 LINK
Compositional diapirism as the origin of the low albedo terrain and vaporization at mid-latitude on Ceres
D. Shoji and K. Kurita Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets doi: 10.1002/2014JE004695 LINK
Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite–like source
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Astro & cosmo-chemical consequences of accretion bursts I: the D/H ratio of water
James E. Owen, Emmanuel Jacquet (Submitted on 24 Oct 2014), accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF LINK (full text) LINK (abstract) We find that the accretion bursts result in a significantly lower (D/H) water ratio…
The negligible chondritic contribution in the lunar soils water
Alice Stephant and François Robert PNAS2014 111 (42)15007-15012; published ahead of print October 6, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1408118111 LINK
The ancient heritage of water ice in the solar system
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Fragmentation of colliding planetesimals with water content
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Water Delivery and Giant Impacts in the ‘Grand Tack’ Scenario
O’Brien DP, Walsh KJ, Morbidelli A, Raymond SN and Mandell AM (in press) Icarus Volume 239, 1 September 2014, Pages 74–84 LINK
The abundance and stability of “water” in type 1 and 2 carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM and CR)
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Chemodynamical Deuterium Fractionation in the Early Solar Nebula: The Origin of Water on Earth and in Asteroids and Comets
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How Earth was watered Recent findings have wide implications in study of extrasolar life
by Alvin Powell Harvard Gazette, 27 February 2014 LINK
Localized sources of water vapour on the dwarf planet (1) Ceres
Küppers et al. Nature 505, 525–527 (23 January 2014) doi:10.1038/nature12918 LINK
Major and trace elements of zircons from basaltic eucrites: Implications for the formation of zircons on the eucrite parent body
Haba MK, Yamaguchi A, Horie K and Hidaka H Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 387, 1 February 2014, Pages 10–21 LINK
Hydrogen Isotopes in Lunar Volcanic Glasses and Melt Inclusions Reveal a Carbonaceous Chondrite Heritage
A.E. Saal et al. Published Online May 9 2013 Science 14 June 2013: Vol. 340 no. 6138 pp. 1317-1320 DOI: 10.1126/science.1235142 LINK Water is perhaps the most important molecule in the solar system, and determining…
The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets
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