An experimental investigation of Fe-sulfides as an indicator of heating conditions in CM and CI carbonaceous chondritesOPEN ACCESS 

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C.S. Harrison, A.J. King, R.H. Jones Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 8 April 2026 LINK + PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We conducted a series of experiments to better understand how the…

Influence of Fe-Rich Materials on the Evolution of Amino Acids under Asteroidal Aqueous Alteration

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Yuanyuan He, Laurent Remusat, Marceau Lecasble, David Boulesteix, Nadezda Khodorova, François Baudin, Arnaud Buch, Sylvain Bernard ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 18 March, 2026 LINK “Amino acids have been detected in carbonaceous chondrites, with abundances…

Distribution of extraterrestrial nucleobases, other N-heterocycles, and their precursors in a sample from asteroid BennuOPEN ACCESS 

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Yasuhiro Oba, Toshiki Koga, Yoshinori Takano, Hiroshi Naraoka, Yuta Hirakawa, Sako Sunami, Yoshihiro Furukawa, Tomoya Yamazaki, Takuto Tomaru, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Harold C. Connolly Jr & Dante S. Lauretta Communications Chemistry, Volume…

Preparing and characterising new carbonaceous chondrite reference materials for verification of ESA’s PROSPECT package

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R.J. Windmill, J.I. Mortimer, M. Anand, A.B. Verchovsky, S. Nicoara, R.C. Greenwood, J. Carpenter Advances in Space ResearchAvailable online 7 April 2026 LINK “The European Space Agency’s PROSPECT payload consists of a sample acquisition and…

The Volatile Inventory of 3I/ATLAS as Seen with JWST/MIRIOPEN ACCESS 

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Matthew Belyakov, Ian Wong, Bryce T. Bolin, M. Ryleigh Davis, Steven J. Bromley, Carey M. Lisse, and Michael E. Brown The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 1001, Number 1, Published: 8 April 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF…

Carbonaceous Chondrite-like Compositions for Proposed Captured Trans-Neptunian Objects Justitia and PompejaOPEN ACCESS 

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Andrew S. Rivkin, Richard J. Cartwright, Joshua P. Emery, and Cristina A. Thomas The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 1001, Number 1, Published: 7 April 2026 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Red spectral slopes (i.e. increasing…

Ryugu Reference Project: Recommendations from the Measurement Definition Team

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Tetsuya Yokoyama, Guillaume Avice, Henner Busemann, Nicolas Dauphas, Daniel P. Glavin, Ashley J. King, Thorsten Kleine, Katharina Lodders, Frederic Moynier, Maria Schönbächler, Yoshinori Takano, Kun Wang, Hikaru Yabuta, Yuma Enokido, Ryota Fukai, Shogo Tachibana, Tomohiro…

CI chondrite Oued Chebeika 002 links asteroids Bennu and Ryugu to common parent body

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Megan Broussard, Katharina Lodders, Paul K. Carpenter, Piers Koefoed, Karen Ziegler, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Marc W. Caffee, Laurence A. J. Garvie, Ryan C. Ogliore, Anthony J. Irving, Bradley L. Jolliff, Kun Wang MAPS, Version of Record…

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