Triple oxygen isotope exchange between chondrule melt and water vapor: an experimental study
Tommaso Di Rocco, Andreas Pack Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, available online 30 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.038 LINK
Ion irradiation of the Murchison meteorite: Visible to mid-infrared spectroscopic results
C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M. A. Barucci, E. Dartois, J. Duprat, C. Engrand, M. Godard, D. Ledu and E. Quirico A&A Volume 577, May 2015 Published online: 29 April 2015 LINK
Early cosmic ray irradiation of chondrules and prolonged accretion of primitive meteorites
Uta Beyersdorf-Kuis , Ulrich Ott , Mario Trieloff Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 423, 1 August 2015, Pages 13–23 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.024 LINK
Petrogenesis of primitive and evolved basalts in a cooling Moon: Experimental constraints from the youngest known lunar magmas
Stephen M. Elardo, Charles K. Shearer, Kathleen E. Vander Kaaden, Francis M. McCubbin, Aaron S. Bell Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 422, 15 July 2015, Pages 126–137 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.014 LINK We have conducted high-temperature experiments…
Annama / Аннама is registered in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Annama / Аннама is now officially registered in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database LINK [wc_row][wc_column size=”one-third” position=”first”] [/wc_column][wc_column size=”one-third”] [/wc_column][wc_column size=”one-third” position=”last”] [/wc_column][/wc_row] [wc_row][wc_column size=”one-half” position=”first”] [/wc_column][wc_column size=”one-half” position=”last”] [/wc_column][/wc_row] “ Annama 68.77491°N, 30.78726°E Murmanskaya oblast’,…
Tissintite, (Ca, Na, □)AlSi2O6, a highly-defective, shock-induced, high-pressure clinopyroxene in the Tissint martian meteorite
Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, John R. Beckett, Yang Liu, George R. Rossman, Kirill Zuravlev, Vitali Prakapenka, Przemyslaw Dera, Lawrence A. Taylor Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, available online 24 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.057 LINK
Constraints on the formation environment of two chondrule-like igneous particles from comet 81P/Wild 2
Gainsforth, Z., Butterworth, A. L., Stodolna, J., Westphal, A. J., Huss, G. R., Nagashima, K., Ogliore, R., Brownlee, D. E., Joswiak, D., Tyliszczak, T. and Simionovici, A. S. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12445 LINK
Oxygen Isotopic Composition of coarse- and fine-grained material from Comet 81P/Wild 2
Ryan C. Ogliore, Kazuhide Nagashima, Gary R. Huss, Andrew J. Westphal, Zack Gainsforth, Anna L. Butterworth Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.028 LINK Individual particles from comet…
Unique large diamonds in a ureilite from Almahata Sitta 2008 TC3 asteroid
Masaaki Miyahara, Eiji Ohtani, Ahmed El Goresy, Yangting Lin, Lu Feng, Jian-Chao Zhang, Philippe Gillet, Toshiro Nagase, Jun Muto, Masahiko Nishijima Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.035…
Microstructural evidence for complex formation histories of amoeboid olivine aggregates from the ALHA77307 CO3.0 chondrite
Jangmi Han and Adrian J. Brearley Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12439 Article first published online: 22 APR 2015 LINK
Prebiotic Hydrocarbon Synthesis in Impacting Reduced Astrophysical Icy Mixtures
Lucas Koziol and Nir Goldman The Astrophysical Journal Volume 803 Number 2 2015 ApJ 803 91. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/803/2/91 published 21 April 2015 LINK
Chemical characteristic of R chondrites in the light of P, REEs, Th and U abundances
Rahat Khan, Naoki Shirai, Mitsuru Ebihara Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 422, 15 July 2015, Pages 18–27 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.04.008 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
The amino acid and hydrocarbon contents of the Paris meteorite: Insights into the most primitive CM chondrite
Zita Martins, Paola Modica, Brigitte Zanda and Louis Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt Meteoritics & Planetary Science Article first published online: 20 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1111/maps.12442 LINK
Geochemistry and chronology of the Bunburra Rockhole ungrouped achondrite
Lev J. Spivak-Birndorf, Audrey Bouvier, Gretchen K. Benedix, Samantha Hammond, Gregory A. Brennecka, Kieren Howard, Nick Rogers, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Philip A. Bland, Pavel Spurný and Martin C. Towner Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12443 Article…
The Košice meteorite fall: Recovery and strewn field
Juraj Tóth, Ján Svoreň, Jiří Borovička, Pavel Spurný, Antal Igaz, Leonard Kornoš, Peter Vereš, Marek Husárik, Július Koza, Aleš Kučera, Pavel Zigo, Štefan Gajdoš, Jozef Világi, David Čapek, Zuzana Krišandová, Dušan Tomko, Jiří Šilha, Eva…
Fractionation of Highly Siderophile and Chalcogen Elements in Components of EH3 Chondrites
Yogita Kadlag, Harry Becker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In press, available online 18 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.022 LINK
Fast grain growth of olivine in liquid Fe-S and the formation of pallasites with rounded olivine grains
Giulio F.D. Solferino, Gregor J. Golabek, Francis Nimmo, Max W. Schmidt Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In press, available online 18 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.020 LINK
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)
Absolute model ages from lunar crater morphology
David Trang, Jeffrey J. Gillis-Davis and Joseph M. Boyce Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets Article first published online: 17 APR 2015 | DOI: 10.1002/2014JE004639 LINK
Platinum partitioning between metal and silicate melts: Core formation, late veneer and the nanonuggets issue
Etienne Médard, Max W. Schmidt, Markus Wälle, Nicole S. Keller, Detlef Günther Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In press, available online 16 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.019 LINK
0Ar/39Ar ages of lunar impact glasses: Relationships among Ar diffusivity, chemical composition, shape, and size
N.E.B. Zellner, J.W. Delano Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta available online 16 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.013 LINK
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)
‘Meteorite Report Centre’ opened at Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), South Corea
The Jinju meteorite fall of 9 March 2014 has led to the creation of a National South Korean Meteorite Report Centre opening today at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). The centre…
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
The nonmagnetic nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Hans-Ulrich Auster, Istvan Apathy, Gerhard Berghofer, Karl-Heinz Fornacon, Anatoli Remizov, Chris Carr, Carsten Güttler, Gerhard Haerendel, Philip Heinisch, David Hercik, Martin Hilchenbach, Ekkehard Kührt, Werner Magnes, Uwe Motschmann, Ingo Richter, Christopher T. Russell, Anita Przyklenk,…
Meteorite-catalyzed syntheses of nucleosides and of other prebiotic compounds from formamide under proton irradiation
Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Mikhail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Y. Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, and Ernesto Di Mauro PNAS 2015 ; published ahead of print April 13, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1422225112 LINK Supporting information (PDF)
Meteorite zircon constraints on the bulk Lu−Hf isotope composition and early differentiation of the Earth
Tsuyoshi Iizuka, Takao Yamaguchi, Yuki Hibiya, and Yuri Amelin PNAS 2015 ; published ahead of print April 13, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1501658112 LINK Supporting information (PDF)
Dawn’s First Color Map of Ceres
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Comprehensive study of carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions, trace element abundances, and cathodoluminescence intensities of calcite in the Murchison CM chondrite
Wataru Fujiya, Naoji Sugiura, Yves Marrocchi, Naoto Takahata, Peter Hoppe, Kotaro Shirai, Yuji Sano, Hajime Hiyagon Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.010 in Press, available online 13 April 2015 LINK
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…
Thermal and near-infrared analyses of central peaks of Martian impact craters: Evidence for a heterogeneous Martian crust
C. Pan, A. D. Rogers and J. R. Michalski Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets article first published online DOI: 10.1002/2014JE004676 LINK
CTBT infrasound network performance to detect the 2013 Russian fireball event
Pilger, Christoph; Ceranna, Lars; Ross, J. Ole; Le Pichon, Alexis; Mialle, Pierrick; Garcés, Milton A. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 42, Issue 7, pp. 2523-2531 04/2015 Article first published online: 9 APR 2015 LINK
Molecular nitrogen in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko indicates a low formation temperature
M. Rubin, K. Altwegg, H. Balsiger, A. Bar-Nun, J.-J. Berthelier, A. Bieler, P. Bochsler, C. Briois, U. Calmonte, M. Combi, J. De Keyser, F. Dhooghe, P. Eberhardt, B. Fiethe, S. A. Fuselier, S. Gasc, T….
Tungsten isotopic evidence for disproportional late accretion to the Earth and Moon
Mathieu Touboul, Igor S. Puchtel & Richard J. Walker Nature (08 April 2015) | doi:10.1038/nature14355 LINK
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
Lunar tungsten isotopic evidence for the late veneer
Thomas S. Kruijer, Thorsten Kleine, Mario Fischer-Gödde & Peter Sprung Nature (2015)doi:10.1038/nature14360 Published online 08 April 2015 LINK
Orbit and dynamic origin of the recently recovered Annama’s H5 chondrite
Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Lyytinen E., Gritsevich M., Moreno-Ibáñez M., Bottke W.F., Williams I., Lupovka V., Dmitriev V., Kohout T., Grokhovsky V. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society MNRAS (May 11, 2015) 449 (2): 2119-2127. doi:…
Glanerbrug meteorite memorial presented on 25th ‘fallday’
On 7 April 2015 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST a memorial with a plate to commemorate the fall of the Glanerbrug meteorite on 7 April 1990 (18:32:38 UTC) was revealed at the corner of…
Relationships between type I and type II chondrules: Implications on chondrule formation processes
Johan Villeneuve, Guy Libourel, Camille Soulié Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta available online 4 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.033 LINK
Widespread oxidized and hydrated amorphous silicates in CR chondrites matrices: Implications for alteration conditions and H2 degassing of asteroids
Corentin Le Guillou, Hitesh G. Changela, Adrian J. Brearley Earth and Planetary Science Letters available online 3 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.02.031 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
A population of small refractory meteoroids in asteroidal orbits
M. Campbell-Brown Planetary and Space Science available online 2 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.03.022 LINK
Multiple carriers of Q noble gases in primitive meteorites
Marrocchi, Yves ; Avice, Guillaume; Estrade, Nicolas Geophysical Research Letters 10.1002/2015GL063198 published online 1 April 2015 updated: Nov 17,2015 PDF (full text) LINK “The main carrier of primordial heavy noble gases in chondrites is thought…
Remembering Mike Drake
Jones, J., Righter, K., Chabot, N. and Jacobsen, S. (2015), Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12437 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
‘Vesta Trek’ released
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