Intercepting 3I/ATLAS at Closest Approach to Jupiter with the Juno spacecraftOPEN ACCESS
Abraham Loeb, Adam Hibberd, Adam Crowl Draft version July 30, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is expected to arrive at a distance of 53.56(±0.45) million km (0.358 ± 0.003 au) from Jupiter…
Precovery Observations of 3I/ATLAS from TESS Suggests Possible Distant ActivityOPEN ACCESS
Adina D. Feinstein, John W. Noonan, Darryl Z. Seligman submitted to AAS Journals, draft version: July 30, 2025Data behind the figures can be found here PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “3I/ATLAS is the third macroscopic interstellar object…
Exploring impact vapor plume reactions from asteroidal impacts: Monte Carlo simulations and implications for biomolecules synthesisOPEN ACCESS
Yoko Ochiai, Shigeru Ida , Daigo Shoji IcarusAvailable online 29 July 2025, 116736 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “During a hypervelocity impact, both the impactor and target materials evaporate, generating an impact vapor plume…
Magnesium phosphate in the Cold Bokkeveld (CM2) carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Martin R. Lee, Tobias Salge, Ian Maclaren MAPS, Version of Record online: 28 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hydrous Mg-phosphate was first described from astromaterials in particles returned from the C-type asteroid Ryugu,…
Experimental constraints on the shock history of CI chondrites and Ryugu grainsOPEN ACCESS
Toru Nakahashi, Masaaki Miyahara, Akira Yamaguchi, Takamichi Kobayashi, Hitoshi Yusa, Masashi Miyakawa, Naotaka Tomioka, Yuto Takaki, Takaaki Noguchi, Toru Matsumoto, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Yusuke Seto LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlight “C-type asteroids, which…
Diversity among fossil micrometeorites in the late DevonianOPEN ACCESS
Krämer Ruggiu Lisa, Villeneuve Johan, Da Silva Anne-Christine, Debaille Vinciane, Decrée Sophie, Lutz Hecht, Felix E.D. Kaufmann, Goderis Steven Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 26 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A total of…
Mineralogical and isotopic constraints on early, high-temperature events and reservoirs recorded in the interior of a Type B Ca-Al-rich inclusion from the reduced CV3 chondrite VigaranoOPEN ACCESS
Jangmi Han, Changkun Park, Ming-Chang Liu, Nozomi Matsuda, Justin I. Simon, Lindsay P. Keller Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 24 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A coordinated mineralogical and…
Space weathering on Vesta: Ion bombardment induced changes on HEDs in visible and infrared reflectanceOPEN ACCESS
Stefano Rubino, Francesca Zambon, Rosario Brunetto, Océane Barraud, Sébastien Besse, Ferenc Borondics, Cristian Carli, Jean-Philippe Combe, Kerri Donaldson-Hanna, Rachel Klima, Cateline Lantz, Giovanni Pratesi, Katrin Stephan, Federico Tosi Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online…
Amides from the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu: Nanoscale spectral and isotopic characterizations
L. G. Vacher, V. T. H. Phan, L. Bonal, M. Iskakova, O. Poch, P. Beck, E. Quirico, R. C. Ogliore MAPS, Version of Record online: 25 July 2025 LINK “C-type asteroids, such as asteroid (162173)…
Lucy Mission Search Plans for Activity around Its Jovian Trojan Flyby TargetsOPEN ACCESS
S. Alan Stern, Carly Howett, Neil Dello Russo, Harold A. Weaver, James F. Bell III, Dennis Reuter, Amy Simon, Hannah Kaplan, Keith Noll, John Spencer The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number 7, Published 2025…
Ultrarefractory inclusions in the Sayh al Uhaymir 290 CH carbonaceous chondrite
Konstantin M. Ryazantsev, Marina A. Ivanova, Alexander N. Krot, Chi Ma, Cyril A. Lorenz, Vasily D. Shcherbakov MAPS, Version of Record online: 24 July 2025 LINK “Ultrarefractory Ca,Al-rich inclusions (UR CAIs) in the Sayh al…
The Hera Space Mission in the Context of Small Near-Earth Asteroid Missions in the Past, Present and Future
Patrick Michel, Michael Küppers, Alan Fitzsimmons, Simon Green, Monica Lazzarin, Stephan Ulamec, Paul Abell, Seiji Sugita, Adriano Campo Bagatin, Benoit Carry, Sébastien Charnoz, Julia de León, Fabio Ferrari, Alain Hérique, Martin Jutzi, Özgür Karatekin, Tomas…
Traces of the oxygen isotope composition of ancient air in fossilized cosmic dustOPEN ACCESS
Fabian Zahnow, Martin D. Suttle, Marina Lazarov, Stefan Weyer, Tommaso Di Rocco, Luigi Folco & Andreas Pack Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 6, Article number: 577 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “As a sub-type of…
Abundant microchondrules in 162173 Ryugu suggest a turbulent origin for primitive asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Genge, Natasha V. Almeida, Matthias van Ginneken, Lewis Pinault, Tobias Salge, Penelope J. Wozniakiewicz, Hajime Yano & Steven J. Desch Nature Communications, Volume 16, Article number: 6466 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Chondrules…
An atlas of apatite and merrillite in martian meteorites: REE Geochemistry and a new tool for shergottite classificationOPEN ACCESS
Tahnee Burke, Andrew G. Tomkins, Zsanett Pinter, Andrew D. Langendam, Laura A. Miller MAPS, Version of Record online: 22 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The phosphates, apatite and merrillite, are accessory phases in…
The Feasibility of a Spacecraft Flyby with the Third Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS from Earth or MarsOPEN ACCESS
Atsuhiro Yaginuma, Tessa Frincke, Darryl Z. Seligman, Kathleen Mandt, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Eloy Peña-Asensio, Aster G. Taylor, Michael C. Nolan Submitted to AAS Journals, draft version July 22, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigate the…
Spectroscopic Characterization of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: Water Ice in the ComaOPEN ACCESS
Bin Yang, Karen J. Meech, Michael Connelley, Jacqueline V. Keane submitted to ApJL PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, obtained with Gemini-S/GMOS and NASA IRTF/SpeX on 2025…
Northwest Africa 13489: A Strongly Metamorphosed Ungrouped Carbonaceous ChondriteOPEN ACCESS
T. Cuppone, C. Carli, M. Casalini, A. Stephant, C. R. Greenwood, G. Pratesi MAPS, Version of Record online: 21 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “NWA 13489 is a meteorite that has been classified…
SF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)OPEN ACCESS
Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić, Devanshi Singh, Henry H. Hsieh, Ian Sullivan, R. Lynne Jones,Jacob A. Kurlander, Dmitrii Vavilov, Siegfried Eggl, Matthew Holman, Federica Spoto, Megan E. Schwamb, Eric J. Christensen, Wilson…
Vibrational spectroscopic, thermophysical, and structural properties of two Antarctic howardites: EET 87503 and QUE 97001
Ozan Unsalan, Cisem Altunayar-Unsalan, Bernardo A. Nogueira, Melanie Kaliwoda, Rui Fausto Advances in Space ResearchIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 17 July 2025 LINK “Highlights “This study uses optical microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry…
Thermal-IR Observations of (152830) Dinkinesh during the Lucy Mission FlybyOPEN ACCESS
Samuel L. Jackson, Joshua P. Emery, Benjamin Rozitis, Philip R. Christensen, John R. Spencer, Stefano Mottola, Victoria E. Hamilton, Carly J. A. Howett, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6, Number…
Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Twin TelescopeOPEN ACCESS
R. de la Fuente Marcos, J. Licandro, M. R. Alarcon, M Serra-Ricart, J. de Leon, C. de la Fuente Marcos, G. Lombardi, A. Tejero, A. Cabrera-Lavers, S. Guerra Arencibia, I. Ruiz Cejudo Submitted to A&A…
The evolution of planetesimal reservoirs revealed by Fe-Ni isotope anomalies in differentiated meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Fridolin Spitzer, Timo Hopp, Christoph Burkhardt, Nicolas Dauphas, Thorsten Kleine Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 667, 1 October 2025, Version of Record 14 July 2025. LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Differentiated meteorites sample planetesimals…
Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 kaOPEN ACCESS
K.E. Karlstrom, C.H. Baisan, D.A. Kring, R. Hereford, C. Turney, A. Hogg; L.M. Norman, P. O’Brien, J.G. Palmer, T.M. Rittenour; J. Ballensky, L.J. Crossey Geology, July 15, 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “This paper…
Thermal and irradiation history of lunar meteorites by the 40Ar/39Ar technique: Dhofar 025, 309, 730, 733, 1442, Northwest Africa 6888, and Sayh al Uhaymir 449OPEN ACCESS
M. Trieloff, E.V. Korochantseva, A.I. Buikin, J. Hopp, A.V. Korochantsev Geochemistry, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 16 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We performed high-resolution 40Ar/39Ar dating of a suite of lunar…
Near-Discovery Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS with the NASA Infrared Telescope FacilityOPEN ACCESS
Theodore Kareta (Villanova U.), Chansey Champagne (NAU), Lucas McClure (NAU), Joshua Emery (NAU), Benjamin N.L. Sharkey (UMD), James M. Bauer (UMD), Michael Connelly (UH/IRTF), John Rayner (UH/IRTF), Cristina Thomas (NAU), Vishnu Reddy (UAz), Megan Firgard…
Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLASOPEN ACCESS
Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling, Matthew J. Graham, Bryce T. Bolin, Mukremin Kilic, Gracyn Jewett, Carey M. Lisse, Carl Ingebretsen, M. Ryleigh Davis, Ian Wong Submitted to RNAAS, draft version July 17, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Solar System’s earliest solids as tracers of the accretion region of Ryugu and Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Noriyuki Kawasaki, Sota Arakawa, Yushi Miyamoto, Naoya Sakamoto, Daiki Yamamoto, Sara S. Russell & Hisayoshi Yurimoto Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 6, Article number: 537, Published: 16 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Samples…
Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk
M. K. McClure, Merel van’t Hoff, Logan Francis, Edwin Bergin, Will R. M. Rocha, J. A. Sturm, Daniel Harsono, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, John H. Black, J. A. Noble, D. Qasim & E. Dartois Nature,…
2025 Jessberger Award to Prof. Vinciane Debaille
Allan Treiman, Susanne P. Schwenzer, Alan Brandon, James M. D. Day, Richard J. Walker MAPS, First published: 14 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Prof. Vinciane Debaille is the 2025 Jessberger awardee. Back in 2020, a…
The Kinematic Age of 3I/ATLAS and its Implications for Early Planet FormationOPEN ACCESS
Aster G. Taylor, Darryl Z. Seligman Submitted to ApJL, draft version July 14, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (28 August 2025): The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 990, Number 1 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The recent discovery…
X-SHOOTER Spectrum of Comet C/2025 N1: Insights into a Distant Interstellar VisitorOPEN ACCESS
A. Alvarez-Candal, J. L. Rizos, L. M. Lara, P. Santos-Sanz, P. J. Gutierrez, J. L. Ortiz, N. Morales, J. de León Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript, submitted as Letter to the Editor PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Comets…
Rare earth element nucleosynthetic anomalies and dust transport in the protoplanetary diskOPEN ACCESS
Justin Y. Hu, François L. H. Tissot, Ren T. C. Marquez, Oliver Shorttle, Cathie J. Clarke, Andrew D. Sellek, Nicolas Dauphas, Bruce L. A. Charlier, Ingo Leya, Reika Yokochi, Thomas J. Ireland, and Helen M….
Geology and Mars analog potential of the <2.7-billion-year-old Miralga impact structure, North Pole Dome, Pilbara Craton, AustraliaOPEN ACCESS
Alec R. Brenner,, Aaron J. Cavosie, Jasmine Palma-Gomez, Joanna Li, Sophie-An Kingsbury Lee, and Roger R. Fu Science Advances9 Jul 2025Vol 11, Issue 28 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “North Pole Dome (Pilbara Craton, Western…
From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the context of the Ōtautahi-Oxford interstellar object population modelOPEN ACCESS
Matthew J. Hopkins, Rosemary C. Dorsey, John C. Forbes, Michele T. Bannister, Chris J. Lintott, Brayden Leicester Submitted to ApJ Letters, Draft version July 9, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (1 September 2025): The Astrophysical…
Curation and Storage of Astromaterials: A Magnetic Perspective
Jérôme Gattacceca, Clara Maurel, Aurore Hutzler, Pierre Rochette & Benjamin P. Weiss Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 67, Published: 08 July 2025 LINK “In this exciting new era of sample return space missions…
A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH2-rich interstellar comet 2I/BorisovOPEN ACCESS
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aurélie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang Submitted…
Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLASOPEN ACCESS
Darryl Z. Seligman, Marco Micheli, Davide Farnocchia, Larry Denneau,John W. Noonan, Henry H. Hsieh, Toni Santana-Ros, John Tonry, Katie Auchettl, Luca Conversi, Maxime Devogèle, Laura Faggioli, Adina D. Feinstein, Marco Fenucci, Marin Ferrais, Tessa Frincke,…
Snapshot of a new interstellar comet: 3I/ATLAS has a red and featureless spectrumOPEN ACCESS
Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass, Emmanuel Jehin, Michele T. Bannister, Erica Bufanda, Sophie E. Deam, Rosemary Dorsey, Marin Ferrais, Said Hmiddouch, Matthew M. Knight, Rosita Kokotanekova, Brayden Leicester, Michaël Marsset, Brian Murphy, Vincent Okoth, Ryan Ridden-Harper,…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical descriptionOPEN ACCESS
Bryce T. Bolin, Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling, Matthew J. Graham, Candace L. Gray, Carl Ingebretsen, Gracyn Jewett, Mukremin Kilic, Carey M. Lisse, Diana Roderick, Ahmed. M. Abdelaziz, Laura-May Abron, Michael W. Coughlin, Eslam Elhosseiny, Cheng-Han…
The first meteoritic ammonium mineral: discovery of boussingaultite in the Orgueil CI1 carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS
Sergey N. Britvin, Oleg S. Vereshchagin, Natalia S. Vlasenko, Maria G. Krzhizhanovskaya, Marina A. Ivanova, Irina A. Volkova American Mineralogist, preprint, 2 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The enigma of ammonium mineral speciation…
A feasibility assessment of micromill sampling for Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd geochronology of shergottitesOPEN ACCESS
A. I. Sheen, C. D. K. Herd, K. T. Tait MAPS, Version of Record online: 07 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Accurate dating of Martian meteorites is crucial for understanding key events in…
Rapid protoplanet formation in the outer Solar System recorded in a dunite from the carbonaceous chondrite reservoirOPEN ACCESS
B. G. Rider-Stokes, X. Zhao, S. L. Jackson, M. D. Suttle, I. A. Franchi, L. F. White, R. C. Greenwood, M. J. Whitehouse, L. Riches, M. Anand, B. Hoefnagels & M. M. Grady Communications Earth…
Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on EarthOPEN ACCESS
Duarte Branco, Sean N. Raymond, Pedro Machado Preprint submitted to Elsevier, 2 July 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (11 July 2025): Icarus, available online 11 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Cosmochemical studies have…
Documenting microbial populations within the University of Alberta Meteorite Curation Facility using 16S rRNA gene sequencing: Implications for the curation of astromaterialsOPEN ACCESS
Libby D. Tunney, Aaron B. Regberg, Christopher D. K. Herd, Richard E. Davis, Christian L. Castro MAPS, Version of Record online: 04 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorites are easily contaminated at the…
NASA’S Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids: Unraveling the History of the Outer Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll, John R. Spencer, Catherine B. Olkin & Thomas S. Statler Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 63, Published: 03 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)…
Insights into the mineralogy of the Rantila aubrite: A luminescence and VNIR reflectance spectroscopy studyOPEN ACCESS
Anna-Irene Landi, Michael Gaft, Cristian Carli, Fabrizio Capaccioni, Giovanni Pratesi Icarus, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 3 July 2025 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights “Rantila aubrite fell in Rantila, Gujarat, India, in August…
Was Earth’s Water Acquired Locally during the Earliest Phases of the Solar System Formation?OPEN ACCESS
Lise Boitard-Crépeau, Cecilia Ceccarelli, Pierre Beck, Lionel Vacher, and Piero Ugliengo The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 987, Number 2, Published 2025 July 2 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of the terrestrial water remains…
Helium Diffusion Kinetics in Enstatite, Kamacite, and Albite, With Implications for the Cosmic Ray Exposure Ages of Enstatite (E) Chondrites
Moshammat Mijjum and Marissa M.Tremblay ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, Publication Date (Web):July 1, 2025 LINK “Cosmic ray exposure (CRE) ages are used to constrain the orbital and impact history of meteorites and identify their…
Asteroids fail to retain cometary impact signaturesOPEN ACCESS
Sarah Joiret, Guillaume Avice, Ludovic Ferrière, Zoë M. Leinhardt, Simon Lock, Alexandre Mechineau, Sean N. Raymond preprint, Draft version July 2, 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (31 July 2025): The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 6,…
Petrographic and geochemical analysis of inversely zoned chondrules
Fabio Joseph, Igor Drozdovsky, Malte Junge, Joanna Brau, Melanie Kaliwoda MAPS, Version of Record online: 02 July 2025 LINK “Chondrules are one of the oldest objects in our solar system. Therefore, they play an important…
Meteoritical Bulletin updates
- Oued El Hamim 003 (Eucrite)
- Northwest Africa 18237 (Ureilite)
- Northwest Africa 18222 (Ureilite)
- Northwest Africa 18223 (Eucrite)
- Northwest Africa 18206 (Eucrite-melt breccia)
- Northwest Africa 18205 (H3)
- Northwest Africa 18122 (Eucrite)
- Ganq 027 (L3)
- Dalangtan 004 (H3)
- Northwest Africa 18188 (LL3)
- Hammadah al Hamra 348 (Ureilite)
- Gadamis 010 (Angrite)
- Northwest Africa 18184 (CV3)
- Sabkhat Arryd 002 (Eucrite-pmict)
- Northwest Africa 18180 (H3)
- Northwest Africa 18181 (L3)
- Northwest Africa 18183 (Eucrite-melt breccia)
- Yagan 003 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18164 (CK3)
- Northwest Africa 18163 (Winonaite)
