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…
