Physical simulation method for meteoroid atmospheric entry with multiple-peaked light curves
Ziwen Li, Zhenye Li, Xiangyuan Zeng, Jifeng Liu, Hu Zou Advances in Space ResearchAvailable online 29 May 2025 LINK “Highlights “Meter-sized meteoroids typically exhibit asymmetric light curves with multiple peaks due to fragmentation and heterogeneous…
Germanium isotope fractionation during evaporation from metal and sulfide melts: Implications for volatile element loss from planetary materialsOPEN ACCESS
Elias Wölfer, Christian J. Renggli, Christoph Burkhardt, Thorsten Kleine Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 30 May 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Ge elemental and isotopic composition of planetary materials holds essential clues on…
Experimental simulations of space weathering on pentlanditeOPEN ACCESS
L. C. Chaves, M. S. Thompson, C. A. Dukes, M. J. Loeffler, M. F. Martinez-Motta, H. Vannier, B. H. N. Horgan, N. Smith, K. Ardrey MAPS, Version of Record online: 31 May 2025 LINK (OPEN…
Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW1OPEN ACCESS
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vereš, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend submitted to ApJLPDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only…
A whole-scale volatile-depleted lunar interior
Wei Dai, Frédéric Moynier, Zheng-Yu Long, Linru Fang, James M. D. Day, Marine Paquet and Julien Siebert PNAS, Vol. 122 | No. 22, May 27, 2025 LINK “The extent of moderately volatile elements (MVE) depletion…
The shaping of terrestrial planets by late accretions
Simone Marchi & Jun Korenaga NatureReview, Volume 641, pages 1111–1120, Published: 28 May 2025 LINK “Terrestrial planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars—formed by the accretion of smaller objects. The Earth was probably the latest terrestrial planet…
Physical and thermal properties of Bursa L6 chondrite: a combination of density, porosity, specific heat, water content, thermal conductivity, and thermal diffusivity results
Cisem Altunayar-Unsalan, Ozan Unsalan, Radosław A. Wach & Marian A. Szurgot Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 370, article number 53, Published: 29 May 2025 LINK “This study presents the first integrated analysis of the Bursa…
Characterization of iron meteorites by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, magnetization measurements, and Mössbauer spectroscopy: Kayakent IIIAB
M. V. Goryunov, G. Varga, Z. Dankházi, A. V. Chukin, I. Felner, E. Kuzmann, Z. Homonnay, R. F. Muftakhetdinova, V. I. Grokhovsky, M. I. Oshtrakh MAPS, First published: 29 May 2025 LINK “A fragment of…
Long-lasting thermal activity on the brachinite parent body revealed by mineralogy, REE chemistry, and U–Pb dating of Ca-phosphates in Northwest Africa 10932OPEN ACCESS
Kengo T.M. Ito, Sota Niki, Hikaru Hasegawa, Kanoko Kurihara, Tokiyuki Morohoshi, Takashi Mikouchi, Takafumi Hirata, Martin Bizzarro, Tsuyoshi Iizuka Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 28 May 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN…
Djerfisherite in a Ryugu grain: A clue to localized heterogeneous conditions or material mixing in the early solar system
Masaaki Miyahara, Takaaki Noguchi, Akira Yamaguchi, Toru Nakahashi, Yuto Takaki, Toru Matsumoto, Naotaka Tomioka, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Yusuke Seto MAPS, Version of Record online: 28 May 2025 LINK “Djerfisherite, a K-bearing Fe-Ni sulfide, was…
Rare Phosphides and Nitrides in Igneous Clasts within Aqueously Altered ChondritesOPEN ACCESS
Lucas. R. Smith, Pierre Haenecour, Jessica J. Barnes, Kenneth Domanik, Yao-Jen Chang and Dolores Hill The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 5, Published: 27 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Chondritic meteorites and…
Microstructural modeling of the fragmentation of ordinary chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Mostafa M. A. Mohamed, Mohamed H. Hamza, Laurence A. J. Garvie, Desireé Cotto-Figueroa, Erik Asphaug & Aditi Chattopadhyay Scientific Reports, Volume 15, Article number: 18348 LINK(OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The fracture behavior of rocks on…
Silicate–sulfide interaction within quenched melts of space weathered Ryugu grainsOPEN ACCESS
Sylvain Laforet, Hugues Leroux, Corentin Le Guillou, Maya Marinova, Adrien Néri, Adrien Teurtrie, Francisco de la Peña, Damien Jacob, Alexandre Fadel, David Troadec MAPS, Version of Record online: 26 May 2025 LINK(OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Lithium- and oxygen-isotope compositions of a Si-rich nebular reservoir determined from chondrule constituents in the Sahara 97103 EH3 chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Torii Douglas-Song, Tsutomu Ota, Masahiro Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kitagawa, Ryoji Tanaka, Christian Potiszil, Tak Kunihiro Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 25 May 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Here we report the…
Oxygen-isotope variations in refractory inclusions from Rumuruti-type chondrites: Evidence for nebular gas heterogeneity and parent-body exchangeOPEN ACCESS
Samuel Ebert, Kazuhide Nagashima, Alexander N. Krot, Addi Bischoff Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 May 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Refractory inclusions [Ca,Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) and amoeboid olivine aggregates…
Comparison of the iron-bearing crystals and phases from Tamdakht H5 and Annama H5 ordinary chondrites by X-ray diffraction, magnetization measurements and Mössbauer spectroscopy
M. V. Goryunov, E. V. Petrova, A. V. Chukin, A. A. Maksimova, G. Varga, Z. Dankházi, I. Felner, G. Leitus, M. Gritsevich, E. Kuzmann, Z. Homonnay, T. Kohout, M. I. Oshtrakh MAPS, Version of Record…
Selective sampling of asteroids, the Moon, and Mars: Factors affecting the numerical abundances of members of meteorite groupsOPEN ACCESS
Alan E. Rubin MAPS, Version of Record online: 22 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorite collection inventories show that many related meteorite groups have very different numerical abundances (e.g., lunar versus Martian meteorites;…
‘Lake Hope’ (prov.) meteorites (LL, >1 kg) of 10 May 2025 bolide (21:57:30 UTC) found west of Norseman, Shire of Dundas, Goldfields–Esperance, Western Australia, Australia
Last update (with corrections about fall sites and meteorite masses): 10 June 2025 (20:20 CEST) A 450-500-gram meteorite (LL ordinary chondrite) with a size “just under a tennis ball” and a “sort of a greeny”…
Identifying LL Chondrite Near-Earth Asteroids Using LL Chondrite Reflectance SpectraOPEN ACCESS
Pengyue Wang (王鹏越), Edward Cloutis, Ye Su (苏烨), and Man-To Hui (许文韬) The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 985, Number 1 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Most near-Earth objects are thought to originate from the collisional…
The bright-field grinding tomography of coarse-grained calcium‑aluminum-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite
Ryota Fukai, Yusuke Takeda, Yuki Masuda, Daiki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Iba, Shintaro Sasaki, Shin Ikegami, Aya Kubota, Reo Sato, Tomohiro Usui IcarusAvailable online 12 May 2025, 116648 LINK “Highlights “The evolution associated with coagulation/fragmentation processes of…
Origin of moderately volatile elements in Earth inferred from mass-dependent Ge isotope variations among chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Elias Wölfer, Christoph Burkhardt, Francis Nimmo, Thorsten Kleine Accepted for publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The bulk silicate Earth (BSE) is depleted in moderately volatile elements, indicating Earth formed from…
Sample Return Missions: Rosetta Stones Returned from the First Small Bodies in the Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Tomoki Nakamura, Cecile Engrand, Michael Zolensky, Victoria E. Hamilton & Abigail A. Fraeman Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 44, Published: 12 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “It is now possible to…
Origin of eclogitic clasts in CR chondrite Northwest Africa 801: Growing evidence for large parent bodies in the CR reservoir of the early solar system
J.S. Gorce, E.A. Heiny, J. Filiberto, C. Goodrich Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 662, 15 July 2025, 119371 LINK “Highlights “There is a growing body of evidence that the range of planetary parent bodies sizes…
Space weathering on the lunar nearside and farside constrained from Si isotopesOPEN ACCESS
Hui-Yan Zhang, Hui-Min Yu, Hao-Lan Tang, Yu-Chao Lin, Zicong Xiao, Lin Yang, Jin-Ting Kang, Ji Shen, Liping Qin & Fang Huang Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number: 4248 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Over long…
Textural coarsening as the cause for impact-melt like plagioclase crystal size distributions and subtle layering in high-Al basalt 14053OPEN ACCESS
Stu Webb, Clive R. Neal, Bridget Guiza, James M. D. Day MAPS, Version of Record online: 07 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “High-Al Apollo 14 basalt 14053 has been identified as an endogenous…
Multi-parameter constraints on empirical infrasound period-yield relations for bolides and implications for planetary defenseOPEN ACCESS
Elizabeth A. Silber, Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez, Iyare Oseghae, Eloy Peña Asensio, Mark Boslough, Rodney Whitaker, Christoph Pilger, Philip Lubin, Vedant Sawal, Claus Hetzer, Randy Longenbaugh, Peter Jenniskens, Brin Bailey, Esther Mas Sanz, Patrick Hupe, Alexander…
An Upper Limit on the Interstellar Meteoroid Flux at Video Sizes from the Global Meteor NetworkOPEN ACCESS
Paul Wiegert, Vanessa Tran, Cole Gregg, Denis Vida, and Peter Brown The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 984, Number 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Material arriving at our solar system from the Galaxy may be detected…
Multiple CV chondrite lithologies in Camel Donga 003 (CK3): Implications for the CV and CK parent bodies
Elana G. Alevy, Tasha L. Dunn, Alexander N. Krot, Paul Cardon-Pilotaz, Juliane Gross MAPS, Version of Record online: 06 May 2025 LINK “Camel Donga 003 (CD 003) was originally classified as a CK3 chondrite based…
A complete inventory of institutional and public meteorite collections in SwitzerlandOPEN ACCESS
J. Eschrig, M. M. M. Meier, B. A. Hofmann MAPS, Version of Record online: 06 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Museums and universities are important for collecting, maintaining, and curating meteorites. To make…
“CY1” Chondrites Produced by Impact Dehydration of the CI Chondrite Parent BodyOPEN ACCESS
Ke Zhu (朱柯), Nao Nakanishi, Jan Render, Quinn R. Shollenberger, Tetsuya Yokoyama, Akira Ishikawa, and Lu Chen The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 984, Number 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The recently proposed Yamato-type (CY)…
238U/235U isotopic variations in angrites and their constituent minerals
Magdalena H. Huyskens, Yuri Amelin, Qing-Zhu Yin, Tsuyoshi Iizuka Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 5 May 2025 LINK “Ages of angrites, a diverse and rapidly growing group of differentiated meteorites, are…
Oued Chebeika 002: A new CI1 meteorite linked to outer solar system bodiesOPEN ACCESS
J. Gattacceca, M. Gounelle, B. Devouard, J.-A. Barrat, L. Bonal, A. J. King, C. Maurel, P. Beck, M. Roskosz, J.-C. Viennet, D. Mukherjee, N. Dauphas, P. R. Heck, T. Yokoyama, K. López García, O. Poch,…
The May 7, 2023, El-Hakimia, Algeria, Fireball: First Meteor Characterization Using Infrasound and Seismic Sensors
Zineddine Bouyahiaoui, Lotfi Yelles Chaouche, Fethi Semmane, Christoph Pilger, Khalil Daiffallah, Yassine Damerdji, Samir Nait Amor, Rabah Ikhlef, Amina Boulkaboul, Djounai Baba Aissa, Fethia Kerrache, Ghoulam Imad Eddine Boudiba, Hamoud Beldjoudi, Chafik Aidi & Redouane…
A one-billion-year-old Scottish meteorite impactOPEN ACCESS
C.L. Kirkland, T.M. Erickson, T.E. Johnson, T. Prave, R.A. Strachan, M.L. Daggitt, M.I.H. Hartnady, S.M. Reddy, R.J.M. Taylor, B.V. Ribeiro, K. Rankenburg, U. Kirscher, S. Fischer Geology, April 28, 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Differentiated planetesimals record differing sources of sulfur in inner and outer solar system materials
Elizabeth A. Heiny, Edward M. Stolper, and John M. Eiler PNAS, May 2, 2025, 122 (18) e2418198122 LINK “The isotope anomalies of noncarbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) extraterrestrial materials provide a framework for tracing the…
Isotopic Composition of the Noble Gases and of Some Other Elements in the Sun: A Review and a Discussion of Open Questions
Rainer Wieler, Donald S. Burnett ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, April 29, 2025 LINK “The isotopic composition of highly volatile elements (noble gases, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen) in the solar accretion disk is largely unconstrained…
Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshellOPEN ACCESS
Farhang Nabiei, Cyril Cayron, A. Brian Aebersold, Martin Robyr, Mary-Alix Kaczmarek, Othmar Müntener & Philippe Gillet Nature Communications, Volume 16, article number 4092, Published: 01 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Native metals of…
