Archive for April 25th, 2018

The delivery of water by impacts from planetary accretion to presentOPEN ACCESS

25/04/2018 21:46 · by karmaka · in asteroid, carbonaceous chondrite, impact / impact-structures, water

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…

The ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325: Spectral reflectance properties and implications for parent body identification

25/04/2018 07:03 · by karmaka · in achondrite, asteroid, Mercury, NWA 7325, parent body, ungrouped

Edward A. Cloutis, Vishnu Reddy, David T. Blewett Icarus In Press, Available online 24 April 2018 LINK “Highlights • the ungrouped achondrite NWA 7325 has been spectrally characterized • NWA 7325 reflectance spectra show diagnostic…