Microstructural and Chemical Investigations of Presolar Silicates from Diverse Stellar EnvironmentsOPEN ACCESS
Manish N. Sanghani, Luc Lajaunie, Kuljeet Kaur Marhas, William D. A. Rickard, Silver Sung-Yun Hsiao, Zan Peeters, Hsien Shang, Der-Chuen Lee, José. J. Calvino, and Martin Bizzarro The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 925, Number 2 LINK…
The Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: a Cometary OriginOPEN ACCESS
Hitoshi Miura, Eizo Nakamura and Tak Kunihiro The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 925, Number 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission has revealed in detail the physical characteristics of the C-type asteroid…
Xenon isotope constraints on ancient Martian atmospheric escape
William S. Cassata, Kevin J. Zahnle, Kyle M. Samperton, Peter C. Stephenson, Josh Wimpenny Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 580, 15 February 2022 LINK “Highlights • Xenon isotopes in an ancient Martian meteorite are mass-dependently…
Kilometer-scale crater size-frequency distributions on CeresOPEN ACCESS
Kosei Toyokawa, Junichi Haruyama, Naoyuki Hirata, Sayuri Tanaka, Takahiro Iwata IcarusAvailable online 29 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • We explored the crater size-frequency distribution (SFD) with D > 1 km on Ceres.• The SFD of projectiles…
Resurfacing processes constrained by crater distribution on Ryugu
Naofumi Takaki, Yuichiro Cho, Tomokatsu Morota, Eri Tatsumi, Rie Honda, Shingo Kameda, Yasuhiro Yokota, Naoya Sakatani, Toru Kouyama, Masahiko Hayakawa, Moe Matsuoka, Manabu Yamada, Chikatoshi Honda, Hidehiko Suzuki, Kazuo Yoshioka, Kazunori Ogawa, Hirotaka Sawada, Patrick…
Unexplored Antarctic meteorite collection sites revealed through machine learningOPEN ACCESS
Veronica Tollenaar, Harry Zekollari, Stef Lhermitte, David M.J. Tax, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys and Frank Pattyn Science Advances • 26 January 2022 • Vol 8, Issue 4 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary…
Determining the age of Vaughan, a potential source crater for lunar meteorites, using boulder size-frequency distributions
K.A. Mistick, R.N. Watkins, B.L. Jolliff, R.R. Ghent, R.L. Korotev, R.A. Zeigler IcarusAvailable online 20 January 2022, LINK “Highlights • Vaughan is a very young, rocky, lunar crater located in the northern South Pole-Aitken basin.•…
Isotope effects at the origin of life: Fingerprints of the Strecker synthesis
L. Chimiak, J. Eiler, A. Sessions, C. Blumenfeld, M. Klatte, B.M. Stoltz Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 20 January 2022 LINK “Strecker synthesis creates α–amino acids from prebiotically plausible substrates (cyanide, ammonia, and aldehydes) and…
Polyaromatic Units Set the Albedo of Dark Extraterrestrial MaterialsOPEN ACCESS
Romain Maupin, Zahia Djouadi, Rosario Brunetto, Obadias Mivumbi, Christophe Sandt and Ferenc Borondics The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Number 1, 20 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Primitive extraterrestrial materials are generally dark,…
Analysis of the April 13, 2021 bolide off the coast of Florida and Grand Bahama Island
Ashley Hughes, Ramanakumar Sankar, Kathryn E. Davis, Csaba Palotai, Dwayne L. Free MAPSVersion of Record online: 20 January 2022 LINK “In this paper, we examine the trajectory, orbital, and radiometric characteristics of the bolide event…
Martian moons exploration MMX: sample return mission to Phobos elucidating formation processes of habitable planetsOPEN ACCESS
Kiyoshi Kuramoto, Yasuhiro Kawakatsu, Masaki Fujimoto, Akito Araya, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Hidenori Genda, Naru Hirata, Hitoshi Ikeda, Takeshi Imamura, Jörn Helbert, Shingo Kameda, Masanori Kobayashi, Hiroki Kusano, David J. Lawrence, Koji Matsumoto, Patrick Michel, Hideaki…
Mid-infrared emissivity of partially dehydrated asteroid (162173) Ryugu shows strong signs of aqueous alterationOPEN ACCESS
M. Hamm, M. Grott, H. Senshu, J. Knollenberg, J. de Wiljes, V. E. Hamilton, F. Scholten, K. D. Matz, H. Bates, A. Maturilli, Y. Shimaki, N. Sakatani, W. Neumann, T. Okada, F. Preusker, S. Elgner,…
Blaubeuren, Cloppenburg, and Machtenstein—Three recently recognized H-group chondrite finds in Germany with distinct terrestrial ages and weathering effectsOPEN ACCESS
Addi Bischoff, Jakob Storz, Jean-Alix Barrat, Dieter Heinlein, A. J. Timothy Jull, Silke Merchel, Andreas Pack, Georg Rugel MAPSVersion of Record online: 17 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “In the last 7 years, three…
Chemical Differentiation of Planets: A Core IssueOPEN ACCESS
Hervé Toulhoat, Viacheslav Zgonnik The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 924, Number 2Published: 14 January 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “By plotting empirical chemical element abundances on Earth relative to the Sun and normalized to silicon…
Reevaluating how charged particles cause space weathering on airless bodies
A.P. Jordan IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 14 January 2022 LINK “Highlights • Space weathering experiments use particle fluxes much higher than those in nature.• Such fluxes and fluences are known to cause dielectric…
Organic synthesis associated with serpentinization and carbonation on early Mars
A. Steele , L. G. Benning , R. Wirth, A. Schreiber, T. Araki , F. M. McCubbin , M. D. Fries, L. R. Nittler , J. Wang , L. J. Hallis , P. G. Conrad…
Noble gases in Dome C micrometeorites – An attempt to disentangle asteroidal and cometary sources
Bastian Baecker, Ulrich Ott, Mario Trieloff, Cécile Engrand, Jean Duprat IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 12 January 2022 LINK “Highlights • We analyzed noble gas isotopes in micrometeorites collected from surface snow.• He and…
A Possible Explanation for the Blue Spectral Slope Observed on B-type AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Mark J. Loeffler, Beau S. Prince Accepted in Icarus on 6 January 2022 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (13 January 2022): LINK In an effort to better understand the role dark material plays in the reflectance…
The Formation of Type B CAIs: Evolution from Type A CAIs
G.J. MacPherson, A.N. Krot, N.T. Kita, E.S. Bullock, K. Nagashima, T. Ushikubo, M.A.Ivanova Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 7 January 2022 LINK “Five Type A CAIs from three CV3 chondrites (Vigarano, Northwest Africa 3118, Allende),…
Northwest Africa 6486: Record of large impact events and fluid alteration on the L chondrite asteroid
C. A. Lorenz, E. V. Korochantseva, M. A. Ivanova, J. Hopp, I. A. Franchi, M. Humayun, M. O. Anosova, S. N. Teplyakova, M. Trieloff MAPSVersion of Record online: 05 January 2022 LINK “We report the…
Towards RNA life on Early Earth: From atmospheric HCN to biomolecule production in warm little pondsOPEN ACCESS
Ben K. D. Pearce, Karan Molaverdikhani, Ralph E. Pudritz, Thomas Henning, Kaitlin E. Cerrillo Draft version , accepted to ApJ PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of life on Earth involves the early appearance of an…
Diverse space weathering effects on asteroid surfaces as inferred via laser irradiation of meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
P. Zhang, K. Tai, Y. Li, J. Zhang, C. Lantz, T. Hiroi, M. Matsuoka, S. Li, Y. Lin, Y. Wen, H. Han and X. Zeng A&A 659, A78 (2022)Received 5 November 2021 / Accepted 30…
Has the impact flux of small and large asteroids varied through time on Mars, the Earth and the Moon?OPEN ACCESS
Anthony Lagain, Mikhail Kreslavsky, David Baratoux, Yebo Liu, Hadrien Devillepoix, Philip Bland, Gretchen K. Benedix, Luc S. Doucet, Konstantinos Servis accepted in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 28/12/2021 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The impact flux over…
