The Origins of Asteroidal Rock Disaggregation: Interplay of Thermal Fatigue and Microstructure

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Kavan Hazeli,Charles El Mir, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Marco Delbo, K.T. Ramesh Icarus Available online 25 December 2017 LINK “The distributions of size and chemical composition in regolith on airless bodies provide clues to the evolution of…

Type I and type II residual stress in iron meteorites determined by neutron diffraction measurements

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Stefano Caporali, Giovanni Pratesi, Saurabh Kabra, Francesco Grazzi Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 25 December 2017 LINK “Highlights • Residual stress determination via neutron diffraction in three iron meteorites. •…

Petrography of the carbonaceous, diamond-bearing stone “Hypatia” from southwest Egypt: A contribution to the debate on its origin

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Georgy A. Belyanin, Jan D. Kramers, Marco A.G. Andreoli, Francesco Greco, Arnold Gucsik, Tebogo V. Makhubela, Wojciech J. Przybylowicz, Michael Wiedenbeck Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 December 2017 LINK…

Enhanced nondestructive characterization of ordinary chondrites using complex magnetic susceptibility measurements

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Oliver, P., Ralchenko, M., Samson, C., Ernst, R. E., McCausland, P. J. A. and West, G. F. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13028 LINK “Ordinary chondrites have previously been nondestructively characterized using bulk magnetic susceptibility,…

The Chelyabinsk meteorite: New insights from a comprehensive electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy study with evidence for graphite in olivine of ordinary chondrites

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Kaeter, D., Ziemann, M. A., Böttger, U., Weber, I., Hecht, L., Voropaev, S. A., Korochantsev, A. V. and Kocherov, A. V. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13027 LINK “We present results of petrographic, mineralogical, and…

Basaltic volcanism on the angrite parent body: Comparison with 4 Vesta

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Abernethy, F. A. J., Verchovsky, A. B., Franchi, I. A. and Grady, M. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13016 LINK “Carbon and nitrogen data from stepped combustion analysis of eight angrites, seven eucrites, and…

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