Machine Learning Mid-Infrared Spectral Models for Predicting Modal Mineralogy of CI/CM Chondritic Asteroids and Bennu
L. B. Breitenfeld, A. D. Rogers, T. D. Glotch, V. E. Hamilton, P. R. Christensen, D. S. Lauretta, M. E. Gemma, K. T. Howard, D. S. Ebel, G. Kim, A. M. Kling, H. Nekvasil, N….
New evidence for wet accretion of inner solar system planetesimals from meteorites Chelyabinsk and BenenitraOPEN ACCESS
Ziliang Jin, Maitrayee Bose, Tim Lichtenberg, Gijs Mulders accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (28 December 2021): LINK (OPEN ACCESS) / PDF (OPEN ACCESS)The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 2,…
Solar wind contributions to Earth’s oceans
Luke Daly, Martin R. Lee, Lydia J. Hallis, Hope A. Ishii, John P. Bradley, Phillip. A. Bland, David W. Saxey, Denis Fougerouse, William D. A. Rickard, Lucy V. Forman, Nicholas E. Timms, Fred Jourdan, Steven…
The Origins and Geological Histories of Deimos and Phobos: Hypotheses and Open Questions
Kenneth R. Ramsley & James W. Head Space Science Reviews, Volume 217, Article number: 86 (2021) LINK “Quantitative measurements and photographic imaging of the moons of Mars set limits on several key geological conclusions-such as…
Mineralogy of the 2019 Aguas Zarcas (CM2) carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fallOPEN ACCESS
Laurence A. J. Garvie American MineralogistRevision 1, preprint (peer-reviewed, final accepted version for American Mineralogist, published online: 24 November 2021) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (1 December 2021, American Mineralogist, 106 (12): 1900–1916): LINK “The 2019…
Oxygen and Aluminum-Magnesium Isotopic Systematics of Presolar Nanospinel Grains from CI Chondrite OrgueilOPEN ACCESS
Nan Liu, Nicolas Dauphas, Sergio Cristallo, Sara Palmerini, Maurizio Busso Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 26 November 2021 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Presolar oxide grains have been previously divided into several…
Impact remnants rich in carbonaceous chondrites detected on the Moon by the Chang’e-4 rover
Yazhou Yang, Shuai Li, Meng-Hua Zhu, Yang Liu, Bo Wu, Jun Du, Wenzhe Fa, Rui Xu, Zhiping He, Chi Wang, Bin Xue, Jianfeng Yang & Yongliao Zou Nature AstronomyPublished: 25 November 2021 LINK “The Moon…
Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer MoonOPEN ACCESS
René Heller, Jan-Peter Duda, Max Winkler, Joachim Reitner & Laurent Gizon PalZ (2021)Published: 24 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Geological evidence suggests liquid water near the Earth’s surface as early as 4.4 gigayears…
The impact of asteroid shapes and topographies on their reflectance spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
S.M. Potin, S. Douté, B. Kugler, F. Forbes Accepted for publication in Icarus PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16 December 2021): LINK “Highlights • The spectral bidirectional reflectance of two reference surfaces is measured in the…
Processes and temperatures of FGR formation in chondrites
P-M. Zanetta, C. Le Guillou, H. Leroux, B. Zanda, R. Hewins, G. Bellino Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 November 2021 LINK “In order to understand the nature of the dust that accreted onto chondrules…
A 187Re-187Os, 87Rb-86Sr, highly siderophile and incompatible trace element study of some carbonaceous, ordinary and enstatite chondrite meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Nicole Phelan, James M.D. Day, Jasmeet K.Dhaliwal, Yang Liu, Christopher A. Corder, Caleb Strom, Emily Pringle, Nelly Assayag, Pierre Cartigny, Kurt Marti, Frédéric Moynier Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Nanoscale Infrared Characterization of Dark Clasts and Fine-Grained Rims in CM2 Chondrites: Aguas Zarcas and Jbilet Winselwan
Mehmet Yesiltas, Timothy D. Glotch, Melike Kaya ACS Earth and Space ChemistryPublication Date: November 16, 2021 LINK “Carbonaceous chondrites are among the most primitive meteorites that escaped extreme temperatures and melting in their parent bodies…
Plasma shielding removes prior magnetization record from impacted rocks near Santa Fe, New MexicoOPEN ACCESS
Gunther Kletetschka, Radana Kavkova & Hakan Ucar Scientific Reports, Volume 11, Article number: 22466 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The shock exposure of the Santa Fe’s impact structure in New Mexico is evidenced by…
Electromagnetic characterization of a crushed L-chondrite for subsurface radar investigations of solar system bodies
Alessandro Brin, Sebastian Emanuel Lauro, Barbara Cosciotti, Elisabetta Mattei, Elena Pettinelli IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 17 November 2021 LINK “Highlights • Electric and magnetic characterization of an L-chondrite granular sample.• Electric permittivity and…
Second Russian meteorite search and reconnaissance expedition at Mikheev mountains, southern Wohlthat Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica (11/2021) – one confirmed meteorite has been found
Last update: 22 December 2021 On 13 November the search team of Ural Federal University (UrFU) and Kazan Federal University (KFU) left South Africa and landed at Novolazarevskaya Research Station in Antarctica after a 5-hour…
3He flux obtained from South Pole air and snow-ice and its connection to interplanetary dust particles
Kenneth A. Farley, Susan Taylor, Jonathan Treffkorn, James H. Lever, Anthony L. Gow Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 15 November 2021 LINK “Researchers have characterized extraterrestrial (ET) helium, likely carried by interplanetary dust…
YORP Effect on Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: Implications for the Dynamical History
M. Kanamaru, S. Sasaki, T. Morota, Y. Cho, E. Tatsumi, M. Hirabayashi, N. Hirata, H. Senshu, Y. Shimaki, N. Sakatani, S. Tanaka, T. Okada, T. Usui, S. Sugita, S. Watanabe JGR: PlanetsFirst Published: 11 November…
Lunar-like silicate material forms the Earth quasi-satellite (469219) 2016 HO3 KamoʻoalewaOPEN ACCESS
Benjamin N. L. Sharkey, Vishnu Reddy, Renu Malhotra, Audrey Thirouin, Olga Kuhn, Albert Conrad, Barry Rothberg, Juan A. Sanchez, David Thompson & Christian Veillet Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 2, Article number: 231 (2021) LINK…
Experimental chondrite–water reactions under reducing and low-temperature hydrothermal conditions: Implications for incipient aqueous alteration in planetesimals
Sakiko Kikuchi, Takazo Shibuya, Mariko Abe, Katsuyuki Uematsu Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 11 November 2021 LINK “The presence of hydrous minerals in carbonaceous chondrites has been considered as an important evidence for the former…
Anaerobic Microscopic Analysis of Ferrous Saponite and its Sensitivity to Oxidation by Earth’s Air: Lessons Learned for Analysis of Returned Samples from Mars and Carbonaceous AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Natsumi Noda, Shohei Yamashita, Yoshio Takahashi, Megumi Matsumoto, Yuma Enokido, Kana Amano, Takahiro Kawai, Hiroshi Sakuma, Keisuke Fukushi, Yasuhito Sekine, Tomoki Nakamura Minerals 2021, 11(11), 1244 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Ferrous saponite is a secondary…
Impactor material records the ancient lunar magnetic field in antipodal anomaliesOPEN ACCESS
S. Wakita, B. C. Johnson, I. Garrick-Bethell, M. R. Kelley, R. E. Maxwell & T. M. Davison Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6543 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Moon presently has no…
Understanding asteroidal failure through quasi-static compression testing and 3-D digital image correlation of the Aba Panu (L3) chondrite
M. F. Rabbi, L. A. J. Garvie, D. Cotto-Figueroa, E. Asphaug, K. H. Khafagy, S. Datta, A. Chattopadhyay Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 11 November 2021 LINK “A comprehensive understanding of the mechanical…
Dependence of the initial internal structure of chondrule rim on dust size distribution
Hiroaki Kaneko, Sota Arakawa, Taishi Nakamoto IcarusAvailable online 10 November 2021 LINK “Coarse objects in chondrites such as chondrules and CAIs are mostly coated with fine-grained rims (FGRs). FGRs can be formed on the surface…
Stellar outbursts and chondrite compositionOPEN ACCESS
Min Li, Zhaohuan Zhu, Shichun Huang, Ning Sui, Michail I. Petaev, Jason H. Steffen submitted to ApJL PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (13 November 2023): The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 958, Number 1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN…
Abundance and importance of petrological type 1 chondritic materialOPEN ACCESS
Sara S. Russell, M. D. Suttle, A. J. King Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 07 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We review the mineralogy, petrology, and abundance of petrological type 1…
Early solar irradiation as a source of the inner solar system chromium isotopic heterogeneityOPEN ACCESS
Yogita Kadlag, Jason Hirtz, Harry Becker, Ingo Leya, Klaus Mezger Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst published: 05 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Different solar system objects display variable abundances of neutron-rich isotopes such as…
Middle Ordovician astrochronology decouples asteroid breakup from glacially-induced biotic radiationsOPEN ACCESS
Jan Audun Rasmussen, Nicolas Thibault & Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6430 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meso-Cenozoic evidence suggests links between changes in the expression of orbital changes…
Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS
Adam Hibberd, Nikolaos Perakis, Andreas M. Hein PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Preprint submitted to Acta AstronauticaSubmitted on 13 Sep 2019 (v1), last revised 4 Nov 2021 (this version, v3) “In August 2019, a second interstellar object…
Meteorite terrestrial ages in Oman based on gamma spectrometry and sediment dating, focusing on the Ramlat Fasad dense collection areaOPEN ACCESS
Åke V. Rosén, Beda A. Hofmann, Frank Preusser, Edwin Gnos, Urs Eggenberger, Marc Schumann, Sönke Szidat Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 November 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We combine the search…
Taurid Stream #628: A Reservoir of Large Cometary ImpactorsOPEN ACCESS
Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Peter Jenniskens, Philip A. Bland, Eleanor K. Sansom, Martin C. Towner, Patrick Shober, Martin Cupák, Robert M. Howie, Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Seamus Anderson, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon and Jim Albers The Planetary…
Improved methods for high-precision Pb–Pb dating of extra-terrestrial materials
J. N. Connelly, J. Bollard, M. M. Costa, P. Vermeesch and M. Bizzarro Journal of Analytical Atomic SpectrometryFirst published on 20 Oct 2021 LINK “Dating meteoritic materials by the Pb–Pb isochron method depends on constructing…
Light noble gas records and cosmic ray exposure histories of recent ordinary chondrite falls
Thomas Smith, Huaiyu He, Shijie Li, P. M. Ranjith, Fei Su, Jérôme Gattacceca, Régis Braucher, ASTER-Team Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 04 November 2021 LINK “We measured noble gas concentrations and isotopic ratios…
Shock Wave Effects from the Impacts of Cosmic Objects with Diameters from 20 m to 3 km
D. O. Glazachev, O. P. Popova, E. D. Podobnaya, N. A. Artemieva, V. V. Shuvalov & V. V. Svetsov Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth, Volume 57, pages 698–709 (2021)Published: 03 November 2021 LINK “Destruction…
The Scientific Observation Campaign of the Hayabusa-2 Capsule Re-entryOPEN ACCESS
E. K. Sansom, H. A. R. Devillepoix, M.-Y. Yamamoto, S. Abe, S. Nozawa, M. C. Towner, M. Cupák, Y. Hiramatsu, T. Kawamura, K. Fujita, M. Yoshikawa, Y. Ishihara, I. Hamama, N. Segawa, Y. Kakinami, M….
The Tharsis mantle source of depleted shergottites revealed by 90 million impact cratersOPEN ACCESS
A. Lagain, G. K. Benedix, K. Servis, D. Baratoux, L. S. Doucet, A. Rajšic, H. A. R. Devillepoix, P. A. Bland, M. C. Towner, E. K. Sansom & K. Miljković Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article…
Widespread glasses generated by cometary fireballs during the late Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert, ChileOPEN ACCESS
Peter H. Schultz, R. Scott Harris, Sebastián Perroud, Nicolas Blanco, Andrew J. Tomlinson Geology (2021)November 02, 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Twisted and folded silicate glasses (up to 50 cm across) concentrated in certain areas across…
Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhoodOPEN ACCESS
Keith D. Putirka & Siyi Xu Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6168 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Prior studies have hypothesized that some polluted white dwarfs record continent-like granitic crust—which is abundant on…
Mass and Shape Determination of (101955) Bennu Using Differenced Data from Multiple OSIRIS-REx Mission PhasesOPEN ACCESS
Sander Goossens, David D. Rowlands, Erwan Mazarico, Andrew J. Liounis, Jeffrey L. Small, Dolan E. Highsmith, Jason C. Swenson, Joshua R. Lyzhoft, Benjamin W. Ashman, Kenneth M. Getzandanner, Jason M. Leonard, Jeroen L. Geeraert, Coralie…
Xenoliths in ordinary chondrites and ureilites: Implications for early solar system dynamics
Cyrena Anne Goodrich, David A. Kring, Richard C. Greenwood Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 2 November 2021 LINK “Foreign clasts (xenoliths) in meteoritic breccias are a serendipitous source of information about the impact environment in…
Formation of ejecta and dust pond deposits on asteroid Vesta
R. Parekh, K. A. Otto, K.D. Matz, R. Jaumann, K. Krohn, T. Roatsch, E. Kersten, S. Elgner, C. T. Russell, C. A. Raymond JGR PlanetsFirst published: 01 November 2021 LINK “Dust and melt ponds have…
Polarimetric Properties of the Near–Sun Asteroid (155140) 2005 UD in Comparison with Other Asteroids and Meteoritic SamplesOPEN ACCESS
Masateru Ishiguro, Yoonsoo P. Bach, Jooyeon Geem, Hiroyuki Naito, Daisuke Kuroda, Myungshin Im, Myung Gyoon Lee, Jinguk Seo, Sunho Jin, Yuna G. Kwon, Tatsuharu Oono, Seiko Takagi, Mitsuteru Sato, Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Takashi Ito, Sunao Hasegawa,…
Noble gas exposure ages of samples from Cone and North Ray craters: Implications for the recent lunar cratering chronology
Evelyn Füri, Laurent Zimmermann, Harald Hiesinger Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK “Cosmic ray exposure (CRE) ages of rocks that were ejected by the impacts that created Cone and North Ray craters provide two crucial calibration…
Revisiting the Wasson fractional crystallization model for IIIAB iron meteorites with implications for the interpretation of their Fe isotope ratios
Edward D. Young Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 01 November 2021 LINK “The trapped melt fractional crystallization model for the IIIAB iron meteorites put forward by J. T. Wasson two decades prior is…
The Mg/Fe ratio of silicate minerals in the meteoritic materials and in the circumstellar environment: A case study for the chondritic-like compositionOPEN ACCESS
Péter Futó, József Vanyó, Irakli Simonia, János Sztakovics, Mihály Nagy, Arnold Gucsik, Boglárka Döncző, Zsófia Kertész, Richárd Novák, and Árpád Csámer Open Astronomy, 2021; 30: 45–55Published: 28 October 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Kaba meteorite…
Formation of metallic-Cu-bearing mineral assemblages in type-3 ordinary and CO chondrites
Ye Li, Alan E. Rubin, Weibiao Hsu American Mineralogist, November 01, 2021, Vol.106, 1751-1767 LINK “Studies of the new growth and re-distribution of Cu-rich phases in chondrites of different petrologic subtypes can potentially provide insights…
