Reflectance spectra of synthetic Fe-free ortho- and clinoenstatites in the UV/VIS/IR and implications for remote sensing detection of Fe-free pyroxenes on planetary surfaces

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Kathrin Markus, Lyuba Moroz, Gabriele Arnold, Daniela Henckel, Harald Hiesinger, Arno Rohrbach, Klemme Stephan Planetary and Space Science Available online 11 April 2018 LINK “Highlights • Even extremely Fe-poor pyroxenes show deep ultraviolet absorption bands….

Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites: a new view of space weathering on primitive asteroids

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C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M.A. Barucci, S. Fornasier, D. Baklouti, J. Bourçois, M. Godard Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • New ion irradiations on several carbonaceous chondrites to…

Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS 

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C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…

Secondary submicrometer impact cratering on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa

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Dennis Harries, Shogo Yakame, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Falko Langenhorst Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 337-345 Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • Submicrometer impact craters on RA-QD02-0265…

A note on cement in asteroids

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G. Bilalbegovic accepted for publications in Icarus PDF (open access) abstract “Cement mineral tobermorite was formed in hydrothermal experiments on alternation of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Unidentified bands at 14 microns were…

New reflectance spectra of 40 asteroids: A comparison with the previous results and an interpretation

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V. V. Busarev Solar System Research January 2016, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp 13-23 First online: 22 January 2016 (Original Russian Text © V.V. Busarev, 2016, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1,…

Effects of viewing geometry, aggregation state, and particle size on reflectance spectra of the Murchison CM2 chondrite deconvolved to Dawn FC band passes

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Matthew R.M. Izawa, Tanja Schäfer, Valerie B. Pietrasz, Edward A. Cloutis, Paul Mann, Andreas Nathues, Kurt Mengel, Michael Schäfer, Guneshwar Thangjam, Martin Hoffmann, Kimberly T. Tait, Daniel M. Applin Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available…

Simulating the Formation of Carbon-rich Molecules on an idealised Graphitic Surface

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David W. Marshall, H. R. Sadeghpour the manuscript has been submitted to MNRAS for publication PDF (full text) abstract “There is accumulating evidence for the presence of complex molecules, including carbon-bearing and organic molecules, in…

Ejecta velocity distribution of impact craters formed on quartz sand: Effect of projectile density on crater scaling law

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Sayaka Tsujido, Masahiko Arakawa, Ayako I. Suzuki, Minami Yasui Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 September 2015 LINK

Reflectance properties and hydrated material distribution on Vesta: Global investigation of variations and their relationship using improved calibration of Dawn VIR mapping spectrometer

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Jean-Philippe Combe, Eleonora Ammannito, Federico Tosi, Maria Cristina de Sanctis, Thomas B. McCord, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 August 2015 LINK

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