Archive for May 20th, 2019

3-μm reflectance spectroscopy of carbonaceous chondrites under asteroid-like conditions

20/05/2019 18:14 · by karmaka · in aqueous alteration, carbonaceous chondrite, CI, CM, CO, CR, CV

Driss Takir, Karen R. Stockstill-Cahill, Charles A. Hibbitts, Yusuke Nakauchi Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 20 May 2019 LINK “Highlights • We present the most comprehensive 3-μm dataset of carbonaceous chondrites ever acquired…

Molybdenum isotopic evidence for the late accretion of outer Solar System material to Earth

20/05/2019 18:07 · by karmaka · in accretion, carbonaceous chondrite, Earth

Gerrit Budde, Christoph Burkhardt & Thorsten Kleine Nature Astronomy, 1–6 LINK “Earth grew through collisions with Moon-sized to Mars-sized planetary embryos from the inner Solar System, but it also accreted material from greater heliocentric distances…