Meteorite and bright fireball records from CubaOPEN ACCESS
Yasmani Ceballos Izquierdo, Johanset Orihuela León, Gabriel Gonçalves Silva, Marcelo Zurita, Daniela Cardozo Mourão, Henry Delgado Manzor Mineralia Slovaca53, 2 (2021), 131 – 145 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (alternative download) “This paper provides a comprehensive catalog…
A temporal shift of chondrule generation from the inner to outer Solar System inferred from oxygen isotopes and Al-Mg chronology of chondrules from primitive CM and CO chondrites
Kohei Fukuda, Makoto Kimura, Naotaka Tomioka, Guillaume Siron, Takayuki Ushikubo, Noël Chaumard, Andreas T. Hertwig, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 31 December 2021 LINK “Deciphering the spatial and temporal evolution of chondrules…
A case for a Themis asteroid family spacecraft mission
M.E. Landis, J.C. Castillo-Rogez, P.O. Hayne, H. Hsieh, K.H.G. Hughson, D. Kubitschek, K.E. Miller, T.H. Prettyman, A.S. Rivkin, B.E. Schmidt, J.E.C.Scully, N. Yamashita, M.N. Villarreal, M. Alexander, A. Armstrong, C. Bader, C. Brown, J.T. Engbrecht,…
Oxygen isotope variations in Mg-rich olivines from type I chondrules in carbonaceous chondrites
Guy Libourel, Kazuhide Nagashima, Marc Portail, Alexander N. Krot Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 31 December 2021 LINK “Using high-resolution cathodoluminescence (HR-CL) panchromatic imaging for the location of high-precision oxygen three-isotope…
Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architectureOPEN ACCESS
Andre Izidoro, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Sean N. Raymond, Rogerio Deienno, Bertram Bitsch & Andrea Isella Nature Astronomy (2021)Published: 30 December 2021 LINK Update (3 January 2022): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Astronomical observations reveal that protoplanetary disks around…
Oxygen isotope systematics of chondrules in Rumuruti chondrites: Formation conditions and genetic link with ordinary chondrites
Maxence Regnault, Yves Marrocchi, Maxime Piralla, Johan Villeneuve, Valentina Batanova, Nicolas Schnuriger, Emmanuel Jacquet MAPSVersion of Record online: 30 December 2021 LINK “Rumurutiites (R chondrites) are rare, highly oxidized chondrites belonging to the noncarbonaceous superclan…
Undetection of Australasian microtektites in the Chinese Loess PlateauOPEN ACCESS
Pan Yan, Zhiyong Xiao, Guoqiao Xiao, Qing Pan, Hejiu Hui, Yunhua Wu, Yizhen Ma, Yongjiang Xu Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 585(4):110721Published: October 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Australasian strewn field of tektites and microtektites, formed by…
Anomaly in the Spectrum of Galactic Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Olivine Crystals from Meteorites
G. V. Kalinina, Than Naing Soe & N. I. Starkov Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 84, pages 849–854 (2021)Published: 29 December 2021 LINK “An anomaly in the spectra of galactic cosmic ray nuclei in olivine…
Mineralogy of the RBT 04262 Martian meteorite as determined by micro-Raman and micro-X-ray fluorescence spectroscopiesOPEN ACCESS
Jennifer Huidobro, Julene Aramendia, Cristina García-Florentino, Patricia Ruiz-Galende, Imanol Torre-Fdez, Kepa Castro, Gorka Arana, Juan Manuel Madariaga Journal of Raman SpectroscopyAvailable online 28 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Martian meteorites and terrestrial analogs…
Refractory inclusions as Type IA chondrule precursors: Constraints from melting experiments
Scott A. Whattam, Roger H. Hewins, Jieun Seo, Bertrand Devouard Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 29 December 2021 LINK “The formation of chondrules involved major processes in the protoplanetary disk and…
The role of target strength on the ejection of Martian meteorites
J.R. Elliott, H.J. Melosh, B.C. Johnson IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 28 December 2021 LINK “Highlights • We explore the effect of target composition of the ejection of Martian meteorites.• Dry tuff fragments are…
Oxygen and magnesium mass-independent isotopic fractionation induced by chemical reactions in plasmaOPEN ACCESS
François Robert, Marc Chaussidon, Adriana Gonzalez-Cano, and Smail Mostefaoui PNAS December 28, 2021 118 (52) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Abstract Enrichment or depletion ranging from −40 to +100% in the major isotopes 16O and…
Effects of pebble accretion on the growth and composition of planetesimals in the inner Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
J. Mah, R. Brasser, A. Bouvier, S. J. Mojzsis accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Recent work has shown that aside from the classical view of collisions by increasingly massive planetesimals, the accretion…
Testing models for the compositions of chondrites and their components: II. CR chondrites
Andrea Patzer, Emma S. Bullock, Conel M. O’D. Alexander Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 December 2021 LINK “Knowing how the major chondritic components evolved and what their initial compositions were…
Modeling of the Dark Phase of Flight and the Impact Area for Meteorites of Real ShapesOPEN ACCESS
Karol Havrila, Juraj Tóth, and Leonard Kornoš Advances in AstronomyVolume 2021, Article ID 5530540Published: 23 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Aims. The complex dynamics of bodies, originating from the interplanetary matter and…
Terrestrial planet formation from lost inner solar system materialOPEN ACCESS
Christoph Burkhardt, Fridolin Spitzer, Alessandro Morbidelli, Gerrit Budde, Jan H. Render, Thomas S. Kruijer and Thorsten Kleine Science Advances, 22 Dec 2021, Vol 7, Issue 52 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Two fundamentally different processes…
Contemporary formation of early Solar System planetesimals at two distinct radial locationsOPEN ACCESS
A. Morbidelli, K. Baillié, K. Batygin, S. Charnoz, T. Guillot, D. C. Rubie & T. Kleine Nature Astronomy (2021)Published: 22 December 2021 LINK Update (3 January 2022): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The formation of planetesimals is…
Distant formation and differentiation of outer main belt asteroids and carbonaceous chondrite parent bodiesOPEN ACCESS
H. Kurokawa, T. Shibuya, Y. Sekine, B. L. Ehlmann, F. Usui, S. Kikuchi, M. Yoda accepted for publication in AGU Advances PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update: PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Water-rock reactions and their products in asteroids…
Complex diagnostics of ordinary chondrites Markovka, Polujamki, Sayh al Uhaymir 001, Dhofar 020, and Jiddat al Harasis 055 by X-ray techniques and Mössbauer spectroscopy
Liubov V. Guda, Antonina N. Kravtsova, Stanislav P. Kubrin, Alexander A. Guda, Mikhail I. Mazuritskiy, Andrei A. Tereshchenko, Yuri V. Popov, Alexander V. Soldatov Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 20 December 2021 LINK…
Preliminary analysis of the Hayabusa2 samples returned from C-type asteroid RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Toru Yada, Masanao Abe, Tatsuaki Okada, Aiko Nakato, Kasumi Yogata, Akiko Miyazaki, Kentaro Hatakeda, Kazuya Kumagai, Masahiro Nishimura, Yuya Hitomi, Hiromichi Soejima, Miwa Yoshitake, Ayako Iwamae, Shizuho Furuya, Masayuki Uesugi, Yuzuru Karouji, Tomohiro Usui, Tasuku…
First compositional analysis of Ryugu samples by the MicrOmega hyperspectral microscopeOPEN ACCESS
C. Pilorget, T. Okada, V. Hamm, R. Brunetto, T. Yada, D. Loizeau, L. Riu, T. Usui, A. Moussi-Soffys, K. Hatakeda, A. Nakato, K. Yogata, M. Abe, A. Aléon-Toppani, J. Carter, M. Chaigneau, B. Crane, B….
U-Pb isotope systematics and impact ages recorded by a chemically diverse population of glasses from an Apollo 14 lunar soilOPEN ACCESS
A.A. Nemchin, M.D. Norman, M.L. Grange, R.A. Zeigler, M.J. Whitehouse, J.R. Muhling, R. Merle Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 20 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Glass beads formed by ejection of…
Meteorites and the RNA world: Synthesis of Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Planetesimals and the Role of Initial Volatile ContentOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Dmitry A. Semenov, Ben K. D. Pearce, Kevin Lange, Thomas K. Henning, Ralph E. Pudritz Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (10 January 2023): The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 942, Number…
An exploration of whether Earth can be built from chondritic components, not bulk chondrites
Conel M. O’D. Alexander Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 17 December 2021 LINK “Here, two of a range of possible models are explored that assume that: (i) two of the main chondritic components (chondrules and…
Volatile interactions with the lunar surfaceOPEN ACCESS
Paul G. Lucey, Noah Petro, Dana Hurley, William Farrell, Parvathy Prem, Emily Costello, Morgan Cable, Michael Barker, Mehdi Benna, Darby Dyar, Elizabeth Fisher, Robert Green, Paul Hayne, Karl Hibbitts, Casey Honniball, Shuai Li, Erick Malaret,…
A young age of formation of Rheasilvia basin on Vesta from floor deformation patterns and crater counts
Paul M. Schenk, Alicia Neesemann, Simone Marchi, Katharina Otto, Trudi Hoogenboom, David P. O’Brien, Julie Castillo-Rogez, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 16 December 2021 LINK “Delivery of…
Deep-mantle krypton reveals Earth’s early accretion of carbonaceous matter
Sandrine Péron, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Mark D. Kurz & David W. Graham Nature, Volume 600, pages 462–467 (2021)Published: 15 December 2021 LINK “Establishing when, and from where, carbon, nitrogen and water were delivered to Earth is…
Understanding the textures of Apollo 11 high-Ti mare basalts: A quantitative petrographic approach
Zhuqing Xue, Donald F. Welsh, Clive R. Neal, Long Xiao Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 15 December 2021 LINK “This paper represents a comprehensive crystal size distribution (CSD) study of ilmenite and plagioclase…
Chemical heterogeneities reveal early rapid cooling of Apollo Troctolite 76535OPEN ACCESS
William S. Nelson, Julia E. Hammer, Thomas Shea, Eric Hellebrand & G. Jeffrey Taylor Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 7054 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The evolution of the lunar interior is constrained…
Chromium Stable Isotope Panorama of Chondrites and Implications for Earth Early Accretion
Ke Zhu (朱柯), Frédéric Moynier, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Jemma Davidson, Devin L. Schrader, Jian-Ming Zhu, Guang-Liang Wu, Martin Schiller, Martin Bizzarro, and Harry Becker The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 923, Number 1 LINK “We investigated…
Indigenous Carbon-rich Matter Associated with Unusual Aqueous Alteration Features in Nakhla: Complex Formation and Preservation HistoryOPEN ACCESS
Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta, Simon J. Clemett, Everett K.Gibson, Zia Rahman, Neha Baskar, Susan J. Wentworth, Nathaniel T. Keprta, David S. McKay Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 14 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “While indigenous organic…
Ancient and recent collisions revealed by phosphate minerals in the Chelyabinsk meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
Craig R. Walton, Oliver Shorttle, Sen Hu, Auriol S. P. Rae, Ji Jianglong, Ana Černok, Helen Williams, Yu Liu, Guoqiang Tang, Qiuli Li, Mahesh Anand Accepted in Nature Communication Earth and Environment PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Effect of Hydrogen Gas Pressure on Calcium–Aluminum-rich Inclusion Formation in the Protosolar Disk: a Laboratory Simulation of Open-system Melt CrystallizationOPEN ACCESS
Michiru Kamibayashi, Shogo Tachibana, Daiki Yamamoto, Noriyuki Kawasaki, and Hisayoshi Yurimoto The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 923, Number 1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Calcium–aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) are the oldest materials that formed in the…
Combining Micro-Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy Mapping: A Stony Meteorite StudyOPEN ACCESS
Maya Musa, Riccardo Rossini, Daniela Di Martino, Maria Pia Riccardi, Massimiliano Clemenza, Giuseppe Gorini Materials 2021, 14(24), 7585 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Meteorite characterisation represents a privileged and unique opportunity to increase our knowledge about…
The appearance of a ‘fresh’ surface on 596 Scheila as a consequence of the 2010 impact eventOPEN ACCESS
Sunao Hasegawa, Michael Marsset, Francesca E. DeMeo, Schelte J. Bus, Masateru Ishiguro, Daisuke Kuroda, Richard P. Binzel, Josef Hanus, Akiko M. Nakamura, Bin Yang, Pierre Vernazza Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Physical Properties and Internal Structure of the Central Region of the MoonOPEN ACCESS
O. L. Kuskov, E. V. Kronrod, K. Matsumoto & V. A. Kronrod Geochemistry International, Volume 59, pages 1018–1037 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “One of the pivoting problems of the geochemistry and geophysics of…
26Aluminium from Massive Binary Stars. II. Rotating Single Stars Up to Core Collapse and Their Impact on the Early Solar System
Hannah E. Brinkman, J. W. den Hartogh, C. L. Doherty, M. Pignatari, and M. Lugaro The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 923, Number 1 LINK “Radioactive nuclei were present in the early solar system (ESS), as inferred…
4M method – new application of Mössbauer spectroscopy to classification of meteorites. How it works?OPEN ACCESS
Jolanta Gałązka-Friedman, Martyna Jakubowska, Marek Woźniak, Patrycja Bogusz, Łukasz Karwowski & Przemysław Duda Hyperfine Interactions, Volume 242, Article number: 55 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “4M method is a new application of Mössbauer spectroscopy…
Beckettite, Ca2V6Al6O20, a new mineral in a Type A refractory inclusion from Allende and clues to processes in the early solar system
Chi Ma, Alexander N. Krot, Julie Paque, Oliver Tschauner, Kazuhide Nagashima Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 07 December 2021 LINK “Beckettite (Ca2V6Al6O20; IMA 2015-001) is a newly discovered refractory mineral, occurring as micrometer-sized…
Chemical characteristics of iron meteorite parent bodies
Connor D. Hilton, Richard D. Ash, Richard J. Walker Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 6 December 2021 LINK “The projected relative abundances of the highly siderophile elements (HSE; Re, Os, Ir, Ru, Pt, and Pd)…
MicrOmega/MASCOT first results
Jean-Pierre Bibring, Cédric Pilorget, Lucie Riu, Vincent Hamm, Rosario Brunetto, Tra-Mi Ho, Ralph Jaumann, Yves Langevin, Aurélie Moussi, François Poulet, Mathieu Vincendon, the MicrOmega/Mascot team Planetary and Space ScienceAvailable online 4 December 2021 LINK “Highlights…
Evaluation of the classification of presolar silicon carbide grains using consensus clustering with resampling methods: an assessment of the confidence of grain assignments
Grethe Hystad, Asmaa Boujibar, Nan Liu, Larry R Nittler, Robert M Hazen Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stab3478Published: 03 December 2021 LINK “We report the use of several cluster analysis techniques to evaluate…
Can Mӧssbauer methods of classifying ordinary chondrites help to identify non-representative samples of these meteorites?OPEN ACCESS
Martyna Jakubowska, Jolanta Gałązka-Friedman, Marek Woźniak, Patrycja Bogusz, Łukasz Karwowski & Przemysław Duda Hyperfine Interactions, Volume 242, Article number: 50 (2021), Published: 04 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Mössbauer spectra of nonweathered ordinary…
Alteration conditions on the CM and CV parent bodies – insights from hydrothermal experiments with the CO chondrite Kainsaz
M.D. Suttle, A.J. King, N.K. Ramkissoon, E. Bonato, I.A. Franchi, J. Malley, P.F. Schofield, J. Najorka, T. Salge, S.S. Russell Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta LINK “This study simulates the hydrothermal conditions that existed on carbonaceous…
Imprint of chondrule formation on the K and Rb isotopic compositions of carbonaceous meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Nicole X. Nie, Xin-Yang Chen, Timo Hopp, Justin Y. Hu, Zhe J. Zhang, Fang-Zhen Teng, Anat Shahar and Nicolas Dauphas Science Advances • 1 Dec 2021 • Vol 7, Issue 49 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN…
Investigation of Dynamics of Heat Propagation in Meteorite Matter and Its Influence on Geometric Features of Tracks of Nuclei in Olivine Crystals from Meteorites
Than Naing Soe, N. G. Polukhina & N. I. Starkov Physics of Atomic Nuclei, Volume 84, pages 643–648 (2021) LINK “The dynamics of heating of a meteorite that travels through the Earth’s atmosphere is studied….
Meteorites that produce K-feldspar-rich ejecta blankets correspond to mass extinctionsOPEN ACCESS
M.J. Pankhurst, C.J. Stevenson and B.C. Coldwell Journal of the Geological Society, 1 December 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite impacts load the atmosphere with dust and cover the Earth’s surface with debris. They…
Early differentiation of magmatic iron meteorite parent bodies from Mn-Cr chronometryOPEN ACCESS
Aryavart Anand, Jonas Pape, Martin Wille, Klaus Mezger, Beda Hofmann Accepted for publication in Geochemical Perspective Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Magmatic iron meteorite groups such as IIAB, IIIAB and IVA, represent the largest sampling of…
