Olivine on Vesta as exogenous contaminants brought by impacts: Constraints from modeling Vesta’s collisional history and from impact simulationsOPEN ACCESS 

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D. Turrini, V. Svetsov, G. Consolmagno, S. Sirono, S. Pirani PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • The Dawn mission revealed the presence of olivine on…

The formation environment of potassic-chloro-hastingsite in the nakhlites MIL 03346 and pairs and NWA 5790: Insights from terrestrial chloro-amphibole.

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Giesting, P. A. and Filiberto, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12675 LINK “Potassic-chloro-hastingsite has been found in melt inclusions in MIL 03346, its paired stones, and NWA 5790. It is some of the most…

Characterization of mesostasis regions in lunar basalts: Understanding late-stage melt evolution and its influence on apatite formation.

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Potts, N. J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., van Westrenen, W., Griffiths, A. A., Barrett, T. J. and Franchi, I. A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12681 LINK “Recent studies geared toward understanding the volatile abundances…

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