The vanadium isotope composition of Mars: implications for planetary differentiation in the early solar systemOPEN ACCESS
S.G. Nielsen, D.V. Bekaert, T. Magna, K. Mezger, M. Auro Geochem. Persp. Let. (2020) 15, 35–39 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The V isotope composition of martian meteorites reveals that Bulk Silicate Mars (BSM) is…
The nature of the CM parent asteroid regolith based on cosmic ray exposure ages
Michael E. Zolensky, Atsushi Takenouchi, Takashi Mikouchi, Timothy Gregory, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Marc W. Caffee, Michael A. Velbel, Daniel K. Ross, Andrew Zolensky, Loan Le, Naoya Imae, Akira Yamaguchi Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:30…
Carbon isotope evidence for the substrates and mechanisms of prebiotic synthesis in the early solar system
L. Chimiak, J.E. Elsila, B. Dallas, J.P. Dworkin, J.C. Aponte, A.L. Sessions, J.M. Eiler Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 29 September 2020 LINK “Meteorites contain prebiotic, bio-relevant organic compounds including amino…
Machine Learning for Semi-Automated Meteorite RecoveryOPEN ACCESS
Seamus Anderson, Martin Towner, Phil Bland, Christopher Haikings, William Volante, Eleanor Sansom, Hadrien Devillepoix, Patrick Shober, Benjamin Hartig, Martin Cupak, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon, Robert Howie, Gretchen Benedix, Geoff Deacon PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (2 December 2020):…
Global-scale albedo and spectro-photometric properties of Ryugu from NIRS3/Hayabusa2, implications for the composition of Ryugu and the representativity of the returned samples
C. Pilorget, J. Fernando, L. Riu, K. Kitazato, T. Iwata IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 29 September 2020 LINK “Highlights • We use a Bayesian approach to derive the photometric parameters from NIRS3 data.•…
Water on Mars: Insights from apatite in regolith breccia Northwest Africa 7034
Jemma Davidson, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Richard L. Hervig, Alice Stephant Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 552, 15 December 2020, 116597 LINK “Highlights • We studied NWA 7034, a regolith breccia representative of the martian crust.• Water…
Iron Meteorites: Composition, Age, and OriginOPEN ACCESS
Edward R. D. Scott LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Iron meteorites are thought to be samples of metallic cores and pools that formed in diverse small planetary bodies. Their great diversity offers remarkable insights into the…
Impact shock origin of diamonds in ureilite meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Fabrizio Nestola, Cyrena A. Goodrich, Marta Morana, Anna Barbaro, Ryan S. Jakubek, Oliver Christ, Frank E. Brenker, M. Chiara Domeneghetti, M. Chiara Dalconi, Matteo Alvaro, Anna M. Fioretti, Konstantin D. Litasov, Marc D. Fries, Matteo…
Oxygen and carbon stable isotope composition of the weathering Mg‐carbonates formed on the surface of the LEW 85320 ordinary chondrite: Revisited
Mohammed I. El‐Shenawy, Paul B. Niles, Doug W. Ming, Rick Socki, Kevin Righter Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 26 September 2020 LINK “New δ13C and δ18O values were measured to constrain the formation mechanisms of…
Rocklines as Cradles for Refractory Solids in the Protosolar Nebula
Artyom Aguichine, Olivier Mousis, Bertrand Devouard, Thomas Ronnet The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 901, Number 2Published 2020 September 25 LINK “In our solar system, terrestrial planets and meteoritical matter exhibit various bulk compositions. To understand this…
Ages of lunar impact breccias: limits for timing of the Imbrium impact
Alexander A. Nemchin, Tao Long, Bradley L. Jolliff, Yusheng Wan, Joshua F. Snape, Ryan Zeigler, Marion L. Grange, Dunyi Liu, Martin J. Whitehouse, Nicholas E. Timms, Fred Jourdan GeochemistryIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24…
The Kumtag Meteorite Strewn FieldOPEN ACCESS
Ke Du, Shijie Li, Ingo Leya, Thomas Smith, Dongliang Zhang, Peng Wang This preprint is under consideration at Earth, Planets and SpacePosted 24 Sep, 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (24 February 2021): LINK…
Chondrules as fallout from vaporizing impacts in the solar nebulaOPEN ACCESS
Nick Choksi, Eugene Chiang, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Zack Gainsforth, Andrew J. Westphal Submitted to MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We consider how chondrules, once-molten mm-sized spheres filling the oldest meteorites, may have formed as the…
Copper in ordinary chondrites: Proxies for resource potential of asteroids and constraints for minimum-invasive and economically efficient exploitationOPEN ACCESS
Katarzyna Łuszczek, Agata M. Krzesińska Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 22 September 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • S-type asteroids contain 70-100 ppm Cu, in FeNi-alloy and native-Cu mineral.• Native copper…
Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu
D. N. Della Giustina, H. H. Kaplan, A. A. Simon, W. F. Bottke, C. Avdellidou, M. Delbo, R.-L. Ballouz, D. R. Golish, K. J. Walsh, M. Popescu, H. Campins, M. A. Barucci, G. Poggiali, R….
Reproduction of I‐type cosmic spherules and characterization in an Fe‐Ni‐O system
Huimin Shao, Hiroshi Isobe, Bingkui Miao Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 21 September 2020 LINK “The chemical composition and texture of cosmic spherules are influenced by atmospheric conditions and the characteristics of their…
Mid‐infrared reflectance spectroscopy of aubrite componentsOPEN ACCESS
Andreas Morlok, Iris Weber, Aleksandra N. Stojic, Martin Sohn, Addi Bischoff, Dayl Martin, Harald Hiesinger, Joern Helbert Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:21 September 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Aubrites Peña Blanca Spring…
Early evolution of the solar accretion disk inferred from Cr-Ti-O isotopes in individual chondrulesOPEN ACCESS
Jonas M. Schneider, Christoph Burkhardt, Yves Marrocchi, Gregory A. Brennecka, Thorsten Kleine Submitted to EPSL on Jan 29 2020, accepted in revised form Sep. 12 2020 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Erratum to “Early evolution of the…
The formation and evolution of the Moon’s crust inferred from the Sm-Nd isotopic systematics of highlands rocks
Lars E. Borg, William S. Cassata, Josh Wimpenny, Amy M. Gaffney, Charles K. Shearer Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 19 September 2020 LINK “Ages determined for magnesian and ferroan anorthosite crustal…
Structure of type A CAI-like melts: A view from multi-nuclear NMR study of melilite (Ca2Al2SiO7-Ca2MgSi2O7) glasses
Sun Young Park, Changkun Park, Hyun Na Kim, Seoyoung Lee, Sung Keun Lee Chemical GeologyIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 16 September 2020 LINK “Highlights • The coordination number of Al in melilite glasses and…
Evidence for early fragmentation-reassembly of ordinary chondrite (H, L, and LL) parent bodies from REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometry
Michael P. Lucas, Nick Dygert, Jialong Ren, Marc A. Hesse, Nathaniel R. Miller, Harry Y. McSween Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 17 September 2020 LINK “Ordinary chondrites (OCs) are variably thermally…
Did a Complex Carbon Cycle Operate in the Inner Solar System?OPEN ACCESS
Joseph A. Nuth, Frank T. Ferguson, Hugh G. M. Hill and Natasha M. Johnson Life 2020, 10(9), 206 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Solids in the interstellar medium consist of an intimate mixture of silicate and…
Oxygen isotope study of the Asuka-881020 CH chondrite I: Non-porphyritic chondrules
Daisuke Nakashima, Makoto Kimura, Kouichi Yamada, Takaaki Noguchi, Takayuki Ushikubo, Noriko Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 16 September 2020 LINK “We measured oxygen isotope ratios and major elemental compositions of…
Experiments quantifying elemental and isotopic fractionations during evaporation of CAI-like melts in low-pressure hydrogen and in vacuum: Constraints on thermal processing of CAI in the protoplanetary disk
Ruslan A. Mendybaev, Michiru Kamibayashi, Fang-Zhen Teng, Paul S. Savage, Bastian Georg, Frank M. Richter, Shogo Tachibana Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 16 September 2020 LINK “It is widely believed…
Geochemical Constraints on the Origin of the Moon and Preservation of Ancient Terrestrial Heterogeneities
Simon J. Lock, Katherine R. Bermingham, Rita Parai & Maud Boyet Space Science ReviewsVolume 216, Article number: 109 (2020) LINK “The Moon forming giant impact marks the end of the main stage of Earth’s accretion…
Accretion disk’s magnetic field controlled the composition of the terrestrial planetsOPEN ACCESS
William F McDonough, Takashi Yoshizaki LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Chondrites, the building blocks of the terrestrial planets, have mass and atomic proportions of oxygen, iron, magnesium, and silicon totaling ≥90% and variable Mg/Si (∼25%), Fe/Si…
Chondritic mercury isotopic composition of Earth and evidence for evaporative equilibrium degassing during the formation of eucritesOPEN ACCESS
Frédéric Moynier, Jiubin Chen, Ke Zhang, Hongming Cai, Zaicong Wang, Matthew G. Jackson, James M. D. Day Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 551, 1 December 2020, 116544 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Highlights • Hg isotopic…
Sulfide‐dominated partial melting pathways in brachinites
Samuel D. Crossley, Richard D. Ash, Jessica M. Sunshine, Catherine M. Corrigan, Timothy J. McCoy, David W. Mittlefehldt, Igor S. Puchtel Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 09 September 2020 LINK “Petrogenetic relationships among…
Chondrules reveal large-scale outward transport of inner Solar System materials in the protoplanetary diskOPEN ACCESS
Curtis D. Williams, Matthew E. Sanborn, Céline Defouilloy, Qing-Zhu Yin, Noriko T. Kita, Denton S. Ebel, Akane Yamakawa, and Katsuyuki Yamashita PNAS, first published September 8, 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Dynamic models of…
The Cl isotope composition and halogen contents of Apollo-return samples
Anthony Gargano, Zachary Sharp, Charles Shearer, Justin I. Simon, Alex Halliday, and Wayne Buckley PNAS, first published September 8, 2020 LINK “Lunar mare basalts are depleted in F and Cl by approximately an order of…
Early sulfur‐rich magmatism on the ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa 7325 differentiated parent body
Jing Yang, Yangting Lin, Hitesh Changela, Liewen Xie, Bin Chen, Jinhui Yang Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:08 September 2020 LINK “The ungrouped achondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 parent body underwent a severe impact…
New constraints on the formation of lunar mafic impact melt breccias from S‐Se‐Te and highly siderophile elementsOPEN ACCESS
Philipp Gleißner, Harry Becker Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:08 September 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mass fractions of the siderophile volatile elements S, Se, and Te were determined together with highly siderophile…
The sulfur budget and sulfur isotopic composition of Martian regolith breccia NWA 7533
Jean‐Pierre Lorand Jabrane Labidi Claire Rollion‐Bard Emilie Thomassot Jeremy J. Bellucci Martin Whitehouse Alexander Nemchin Munir Humayun James Farquhar Roger H. Hewins Brigitte Zanda Sylvain Pont Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:08 September 2020…
Laser microprobe noble gases and nitrogen analysis of chondrules from the Dhajala chondrite
Ramakant R. Mahajan Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online:08 September 2020 LINK “Noble gases and nitrogen are investigated in eight individual chondrules of the Dhajala H3.8 chondrite. The mean cosmic ray exposure age of…
The surprising thermal properties of CM carbonaceous chondritesOPEN ACCESS
C. P. Opeil, D. T. Britt, R. J. Macke, G. J. Consolmagno Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 08 September 2020 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Measurements of the low‐temperature thermodynamic and physical properties of…
High precision meteor observations with the Canadian Automated Meteor Observatory — Data reduction pipeline and application to meteoroid mechanical strength measurementsOPEN ACCESS
Denis Vida, Peter G. Brown, Margaret Campbell-Brown, Robert J. Weryk, Gunter Stober, John P. McCormack Accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (10 September 2020): LINK “The mirror tracking system of the Canadian…
OSLO (H3-6, 2012) and VALLE (H5, 2013) finally approved
On 5 September 2020 the Norwegian meteorites OSLO (2012, H3-6) and VALLE (2013, H5) have finally been registered as probable and possible falls in the Meteoritical Bulletin database. The first Oslo specimen (Rodeløkka). Photo: Terje…
Laboratory examination of the physical properties of ordinary chondrites
D. Ostrowski, K. Bryson Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 September 2020 LINK “Meteorites provide vast amounts of information on the makeup and history of the solar system. The physical properties help to…
Terrestrial target and melting site of Libyan Desert Glass: New evidence from trace elements and Sr isotopes
Giampaolo P. Sighinolfi, Federico Lugli, Federica Piccione, Vincenzo DE Michele, Anna Cipriani Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 September 2020 LINK “Strontium isotopes and selected trace elements (Rb, Sr, REE, Zr, Hf, Th,…
The Role of Meteorite Impacts in the Origin of LifeOPEN ACCESS
G.R. Osinski, C.S. Cockell, A. Pontefract, and H.M. Sapers AstrobiologyReview articlePublished Online: 1 Sep 2020 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The conditions, timing, and setting for the origin of life on Earth and whether…
Low-phase spectral reflectance and equivalent “geometric albedo” of meteorites powdersOPEN ACCESS
P. Beck, B. Schmitt, S. Potin, A. Pommerol, O. Brissaud IcarusAvailable online 1 September 2020, 114066 LINK Update (23 September 2020): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Reflectance spectra of 72 different meteorite are obtained low…
Mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy of carbonaceous chondrites and Calcium–Aluminum-rich inclusions
Andreas Morlok, Benjamin Schiller, Iris Weber, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Aleksandra N. Stojic, Maximilian P. Reitze, Tim Gramse, Stephen D. Wolters, Harald Hiesinger, Monica M.Grady, Joern Helbert Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online…
