The Kamil Crater (Egypt): A Type Structure for Small Impact Craters on Earth
Folco L. * D’Orazio M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6427 LINK
Chondrule Pyroxene Embedded in Cores of Amoeboid Olivine Aggregates from Allende: Evidence of Overlapping Formation Times of AOAs and Chondrules
Fagan T. J. * Komatsu M. Nishijima E. Fukushima H. Yasuda T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6292 LINK
Evolution of Olivine Composition in the Meteorite Fusion Crust
Pittarello L. * McKibbin S. Debaille V. Claeys Ph. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6061 LINK
Evidence for Oxygen-Isotope Exchange in Chondrules and Refractory Inclusions During Fluid-Rock Interaction on the CV Chondrite Parent Body
Krot A. N. * Nagashima K. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6014 LINK
Evidence for a Long Duration of the 16O-Rich Reservoir in the Solar Nebula
Ushikubo T. * Tenner T. J. Hiyagon H. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6080 LINK
Characterization of Nitrogen-Bearing Phases in the Enstatite Chondrites Indarch and Neuschwanstein
Leitner J. * Hoppe P. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6173 LINK
Ultrahigh-Resolving Analytics in Meteoritic Soluble Organic Matter
Ruf A. R. Hertkorn N. H. Harir M. H. Kanawati B. K. Lucio M. L. Quirico E. Q. Gabelica Z. G. Gougeon R. G. Schmitt-Kopplin P. S.-K. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016)…
The Noble Gas Concentration of the Martian Meteorites GRV 99027 and NWA 7906/NWA 7907 (Paired with NWA 7034)
Stephenson P. C. Leya I. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6138 LINK
Ar-Ar Ages of Brachinite and Brachinite-Like Achondrites
Beard S. P. Swindle T. D. Isachsen C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6411 LINK
Diversity Among EH Chondrites: Anomalous EH3 Chondrite Northwest Africa 8789 and Rare EH Melt Rocks Northwest Africa 7324 and Northwest Africa 10237
Kuehner S. M. Irving A. J. Sipiera P. P. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6448 LINK
Search for Correlations Between Size and Oxygen Isotopy of OC Chondrules
Metzler K. Pack A. Hezel D. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6441 LINK
Chondrule Oxygen Isotope Systematics Among Different Chondrite Groups: Variety of Isotope Reservoirs in the Protoplanetary Disk
Kita N. T. Tenner T. J. Ushikubo T. Hertwig A. Chaumard N. Defouilloy C. Nakashima D. Rudraswami N. G. Weisberg M. K. Kimura M. Nagahara H. Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society…
A Numeric System to Describe Chondrule Textures and Mineralogy
Herd R. K. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6236 LINK
Relationship Between Asteroid 1 Ceres and Chondrite Meteorites on the Basis of Mineralogy and UV-Visible Spectroscopy
Farsang S. Raub T. D. Grady M. M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6213 LINK
The Chondrule–Matrix Complementarity, a Big Data Approach
Harak M. Hezel D. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6174 LINK
Formation of P-Rich Olivine in DaG 978 Carbonaceous Chondrite Through Fluid-Assisted Metamorphism
Zhang A. C. Li Y. Chen J. N. Gu L. X. Wang R. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6002 LINK
Iron Oxidation States of Matrix in Carbonaceous Chondrites Acfer 094 and MIL 07687
Vaccaro E. King A. J. Schofield P. F. Abyaneh M. K. Kaulich B. Russell S. S. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6473 LINK
Discovery of New Al-Cu-Fe Minerals in the Khatyrka CV3 Meteorite
Ma C. Lin C. Bindi L. Steinhardt P. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6017 LINK
Iron Isotope Compositions of Achondritic Meteorites from Distinct Parent Bodies
Dybal E. M. K. Wadhwa M. * Romaniello S. Hines R. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6535 LINK
Evaluating the Evidence for Magnetic Dynamos in Chondritic Parent Bodies
Fu R. R. * Weiss B. P. Krot A. N. Kehayias P. Glenn D. R. Fintor K. Pál-Molnár E. Bryson J. F. J. Walsworth R. L. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6078…
Martian Alteration in Unique Meteorite NWA 8159?
Hallis L. J. * Simpson S. Mark D. Lee M. R. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6442 LINK
NWA 10659: A Clay-Rich Nakhlite Pair of NWA 10153
Hicks L. J. * Bridges J. C. Greenwood R. C. Franchi I. A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6421 LINK
Petrology, Mineralogy and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Northwest Africa 10153 Nakhlite: A Sample from a Different Flow from Other Nakhlites?
Mikouchi T. * Righter M. Ziegler K. Irving A. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6396 LINK
Oxygen Isotopes and Origin of Opal in an Antarctic Ureilite
Downes H. Beard A. D. Franchi I. A. Greenwood R. C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6141] abstract updated (27 June, 2016): NAM2016 press release (27 June 2016)
Mineralogical and Petrofabric Study of Brachinite Reid 013
Hasegawa H. * Mikouchi T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6246 LINK
Evidence that 26Al did Not Melt Asteroids
Wasson J. T. * 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6530 LINK
Effects of Aqueous Alteration on Primordial Noble Gases in Tagish Lake (C2-ungr.)
Riebe M. E. I. * Busemann H. Alexander C. M. O’D. Herd C. D. K. Maden C. Wieler R. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6211 LINK
Effects of Short-Term Thermal Alteration on Organic Matter in Experimentally-Heated Tagish Lake Observed by Raman Spectroscopy
Chan Q. H. S. * Nakato A. Zolensky M. E. Nakamura T. Kebukawa Y. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6188 LINK
U-Pb Dating of Zircon with Petrographic Settings from the Martian Regolith Breccia NWA 7034
Lin Y. T. * Hu S. Zhang T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6248 LINK
Chalcophile Siderophile Trace Element Systematics of Hydrothermal Pyrite from Martian Regolith Breccia NWA 7533
Lorand J.-P. * Hewins R. H. Humayun M. Remusat L. Zanda B. La C. Pont S. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6082 LINK
NWA 7533: An Overview of Melt Rocks and Breccia Assembly History
Hewins R. H. * Zanda B. Humayun M. Leroux H. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6366 LINK
Multiple Olivine-Phyric Shergottite Stones of Differing Crystallization Age in the 2011 Tissint Meteorite Fall Imply Impact Excavation from a Long-Lived Depleted Magmatic Complex on Mars (Hint: Olympus Mons)
Irving A. J. * Lapen T. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6454 LINK
C Chondrite Clasts in H Chondrite Regolith Breccias: Something Different
Zolensky M. * Fries M. Utas J. Chan Q. Kebukawa Y. Steele A. Bodnar R. Ito M. Nakashima D. Nakamura T. Greenwood R. Rahman Z. Le L. Ross D. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical…
New Volatile-Rich Clasts from Brecciated Chondrites and Achondrites
Patzek M. * Ebert S. Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6136 LINK
The Kaidun Breccia Material Variety: New Clasts and Updated Hypothesis on a Space Trawl Origin
Ivanova M. A. * Lorenz C. A. Ma C. Ivanov A. V. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6100 LINK
Recent Terrestrial Disturbance of the 176Lu-176Hf Systematics in Meteorites
Bast R. * Scherer E. E. Sprung P. Mezger K. Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6164 LINK
Mn-Cr Dating of Enstatite Chondrites
Hopp J. * Trieloff M. Storck J.-C. Ludwig T. Meyer H. P. Altherr R. El Goresy A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6258 LINK
Diverse Anhydrous Silicates in a Fine-Grained Rim in the Weakly Altered CM2 Chondrite Queen Elizabeth Range 97990: Evidence for the Localized Preservation of Pristine Nebular Dust in CM Chondrites.
Brearley A. J. * 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6190 LINK
Combined 238U/235U and Pb Isotopics of Planetary Core Material: The Absolute Age of the IVA Iron Muonionalusta
Brennecka G. A. * Amelin Y. Kleine T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6296 LINK
Tungsten Isotope Dichotomy Among Iron Meteorite Parent Bodies: Implications for the Timescales of Accretion and Core Formation
Kruijer T. S. * Kleine T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6449 LINK
53Mn-53Cr Systematics of the Brachinite NWA 4882
Dunlap D. R. * Romaniello S. J. Wadhwa M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6217 LINK
Heterogeneity in the 238U/235U Ratios of Angrites
Tissot F. L. H. * Dauphas N. Grove T. L. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6104 LINK
Formation of Vesicles Within the Fusion Crust of Eucritic Meteorites
Nicolau-Kuklińska A. Łosiak A. I. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6424 LINK
Meteorite Atmospheric Entry Reproduced in Plasmatron
Pittarello L. McKibbin S. Goderis S. Soens B. Bariselli F. Barros Dias B. R. Zavalan F. L. Magin T. Claeys Ph. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6062 LINK
Stardust in the CO3.0 Chondrite NWA 8631: Low Abundance of Presolar Silicates
Haenecour P. Floss C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6209 LINK
Almahata Sitta News: Well-Known Varieties and New Species in the Zoo
Bischoff A. Ebert S. Patzek M. Horstmann M. Pack A. Decker S. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6319 LINK
Preatmospheric Size and Terrestrial Age of the Twannberg Meteorite (IIG)
Smith T. Leya I. Hofmann B. Merchel S. Rugel G. Pavetich S. Scharf A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6187 LINK
The Twannberg (IIG) Iron Strewn Field, Switzerland: Status of Exploration and Relation with Quaternary Deposits
Hofmann B. A. Raselli R. Pettke T. Smith T. Leya I. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6160 LINK
Lut Desert (Iran) Meteorites: Distribution, Classification and Weathering
Pourkhorsandi H. Rochette P. Gattacceca J. D’Orazio M. Mirnejad H. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6195 LINK
SIMS Oxygen Isotope Study of Chondrules in the Least Metamorphosed CV3 Chondrite Kaba
Hertwig A. * Defouilloy C. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6472 LINK
Oxygen Isotopes in Chondrules from the Murchison CM2 Chondrite and Evidence for a CO-CM Link
Chaumard N. * Defouilloy C. Kita N. T. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6408] LINK
What do We Know About Elemental Bulk Chondrule Compositions? Presenting the ChondriteDB Database
Hezel D. C. * Harak M. Libourel G. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6132] LINK
Non Destructive IR Micro-Imaging of Whole Grains of the Paris Meteorite
Dionnet Z. * Aleon-Toppani A. Borondics F. Brunetto R. Djouadi Z. Troadec D. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6130] LINK
Expected Geochemical and Mineralogical Properties of Meteorites from Mercury:Inferences from MESSENGER Data
McCubbin F. M. * McCoy T. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6242] LINK
Do We have Meteorites from the Veritas Asteroid Break-Up Event 8 Ma ago?
Meier M. M. M. * Grimm S. Maden C. Busemann H. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) [#6291] LINK
El Médano 301: A New Forsterite Chondrite
Pourkhorsandi H. Gattacceca J. Devouard B. D’Orazio M. Rochette P. Beck P. Valenzuela M. Sonzogni C. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6176 abstract
U-Pb Age of the Ungrouped Achondrite NWA 8486
Cartwright J. A. * Amelin Y. Koefoed P. Wadhwa M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6231 abstract
New Insights in Preservation of Meteorites in Hot Deserts: The Oldest Hot Desert Meteorite Collection.
Hutzler A. Rochette P. Bourlès D. Gattacceca J. Merchel S. Jull A. J. T. Valenzuela M. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6159 abstract
Cosmogenic Radionuclides in the Komar Gaon Meteorite Measured in a New Low-Background Gamma-Ray Spectrometry Facility, GeMSE
Rosén Å. V. von Sivers M. Hofmann B. A. Schumann M. Pathak D. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6398 abstract
Search and Recover of Antarctic Meteorites from Lomonosov Mountains, Queen Maud Land by the First Russian Meteorite Expedition
Larionov M. Yu. Grokhovsky V. I. Kolunin R. N. Pastukhovich A. Yu. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6369 abstract
A Stranger in the Midst: Searching for Relict Grains from Rare Meteorite Types in Mid-Ordovician Limestone Strata
Martin E. Schmitz B. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6281 abstract
Fe-57 Mössbauer Study of the Murrili Ordinary Chondrite
Cadogan J. M. Bland P. A. Benedix G. K. Towner M. C. Sansom E. K. Devillepoix H. Howie R. M. Paxman J. P. Cupak M. Cox M. A. Jansen-Sturgeon T. Stuart D. Strangway D. 79th…
Density, Porosity and Magnetic Susceptibility of the Murrili Meteorite Recovered by the Desert Fireball Network
Macke R. J. SJ Wiggins S. Britt D. T. Benedix G. K. Bland P. A. Desert Fireball Network Team 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6147 abstract
Sidi Ali Ou Azza (L4): A New Moroccan Fall
Chennaoui Aoudjehane H. Agee C. B. Aaranson A. Bouragaa 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6120 abstract
Cosmogenic and Trapped Noble Gases from Csátalja H4-5
Pető M. K. Ott U. Lugaro M. Benkó Z. Nagy D. Pécskay Z. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6495 abstract
The Stubenberg (Bavaria) Ordinary Chondrite Breccia: The Latest German Meteorite Fall
Ebert S., Bischoff A. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6137 abstract
Fall, Petrology, Classification, Noble Gas and Cosmogenic Records of Komar Gaon Meteorite, the Latest Fall in India
Ray D. * Mahajan R. R. Shukla A. D. Goswami T. K. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6071 abstract
Mineralogy and Petrology of the Murrili Meteorite
Benedix G. K. * Forman L. V. Daly L. Greenwood R. C. Franchi I. A. Friedrich J. M. Meier M. M. M. Maden C. Busemann H. Welten K. C. Caffee M. W. Bland P. A….
Pre-Entry Size and Cosmic History of the Annama Meteorite
Kohout T. * Meier M. M. M. Maden C. Busemann H. Welten K. C. Laubenstein M. Caffee M. W. Gritsevich M. Grokhovsky V. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6316 abstract
Fall and Recovery of the Murrili Meteorite, and an Update on the Desert Fireball Network
Bland P. A. * Towner M. C. Sansom E. K. Devillepoix H. Howie R. M. Paxman J. P. Cupak M. Benedix G. K. Cox M. A. Jansen-Sturgeon T. Stuart D. Strangway D. 79th Annual Meeting…
Two very Precisely Instrumentally Documented Meteorite Falls: Zdar nad Sazavou and Stubenberg – Prediction and Reality
Spurny P. * Borovicka J. Haloda J. Shrbeny L. Heinlein D. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6221 abstract
A new type of solar-system material recovered from Ordovician marine limestoneOPEN ACCESS
B. Schmitz, Q. -Z. Yin, M. E. Sanborn,M. Tassinari,C. E. Caplan & G. R. Huss Nature Communications 7, Article number:ncomms11851 doi:10.1038/ncomms11851 Published 14 June 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “From mid-Ordovician ~470 Myr-old limestone…
On the Nature of the Impactor That Formed the Shackleton Crater on the Moon
Svetlana G. Pugacheva, Ekaterina A. Feoktistova Earth, Moon, and Planets pp 1-24, 10.1007/s11038-016-9489-y First online: 14 June 2016 LINK “The present paper attempts to assess the characteristics of the impactor that formed the Shackleton crater,…
Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions
Paul D. Asimow, Chaney Lin, Luca Bindi, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, Lincoln S. Hollister, and Paul J. Steinhardt PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print June 13, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1600321113 LINK “Significance The singular occurrence, to date,…
The Agoudal (High Atlas Mountains, Morocco) shatter cone conundrum: A recent meteorite fall onto the remnant of an impact site
Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H., El Kerni, H., Reimold, W. U., Baratoux, D., Koeberl, C., Bouley, S. and Aoudjehane, M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12661 LINK “Associations between impact structures and meteorite occurrences are rare and…
Titanium stable isotope investigation of magmatic processes on the Earth and Moon
Marc-Alban Millet, Nicolas Dauphas, Nicolas D. Greber, Kevin W. Burton, Chris W. Dale, Baptiste Debret, Colin G. Macpherson, Geoffrey M. Nowell, Helen M. Williams Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 449, 1 September 2016, Pages…
The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary at the J Anomaly Ridge, Newfoundland (IODP Expedition 342, Hole U1403B).
Loroch, D., Deutsch, A., Berndt, J. and Bornemann, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12667 LINK “We present results of an in-situ geochemical study using laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses along a ~4.3…
On the iron isotope composition of Mars and volatile depletion in the terrestrial planets
Paolo A. Sossi, Oliver Nebel, Mahesh Anand, Franck Poitrasson Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 June 2016 LINK “Iron is the most abundant multivalent element in planetary reservoirs, meaning…
Gas/solid carbon branching ratios in surface-mediated reactions and the incorporation of carbonaceous material into planetesimals.
Nuth, J. A., Johnson, N. M., Ferguson, F. T. and Carayon, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12666 LINK “We report the ratio of the initial carbon available as CO that forms gas-phase compounds compared…
Reflectance spectroscopy of oxalate minerals and relevance to solar system carbon inventories
Daniel M. Applin, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Edward A. Cloutis Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 June 2016 LINK “The diversity of oxalate formation mechanisms suggests that significant concentrations of oxalic acid and oxalate…
The Collisional Evolution of Undifferentiated Asteroids and the Formation of Chondritic Meteoroids
E. Beitz, J. Blum, M. G. Parisi, and J. Trigo-Rodriguez The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 824, Number 1 Published 2016 June 3 LINK “Most meteorites are fragments from recent collisions experienced in the asteroid belt. In…
CV and CM Chondrite Impact Melts
Nicole G. Lunning, Catherine M. Corrigan, Harry Y. McSween, Travis J. Tenner, Noriko T. Kita, Robert. J. Bodnar Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 June 2016 LINK “Volatile-rich and typically…
Target rocks, impact glasses, and melt rocks from the Lonar crater, India: Highly siderophile element systematics and Sr-Nd-Os isotopic signatures.
Schulz, T., Luguet, A., Wegner, W., van Acken, D. and Koeberl, C. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12665 LINK “The Lonar crater is a ~0.57-Myr-old impact structure located in the Deccan Traps of the Indian…
An asteroidal origin for water in the MoonOPEN ACCESS
Jessica J. Barnes, David A. Kring, Romain Tartèse, Ian A. Franchi, Mahesh Anand & Sara S. Russell Nature Communications7, Article number:11684 doi:10.1038/ncomms11684 Published 31 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The Apollo-derived tenet of an anhydrous…
Enantiomer excesses of rare and common sugar derivatives in carbonaceous meteorites
George Cooper and Andro C. Rios PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print May 31, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1603030113 LINK “Significance The majority of biological sugars and their derivatives contain higher abundances of the “d” mirror-image forms relative…
Sulfur solubility in reduced mafic silicate melts: Implications for the speciation and distribution of sulfur on Mercury
Olivier Namur, Bernard Charlier, Francois Holtz, Camille Cartier, Catherine McCammon Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 448, 15 August 2016, Pages 102–114 LINK “Chemical data from the MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that surface rocks on Mercury…
Erratum to “Reassessing the cooling rate and geologic setting of Martian meteorites MIL 03346 and NWA 817” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 182 (2016) 1–23]
Erratum to “Reassessing the cooling rate and geologic setting of Martian meteorites MIL 03346 and NWA 817” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 182 (2016) 1–23] Frank Richter, Marc Chaussidon, Ruslan Mendybaev, Edwin Kite Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta…
FRIPON camera network officially launched on May 31, 2016
last update: 10 June 2016 With two-thirds of the cameras installed the French camera network FRIPON was officially launched on May 31, 2016. The remaining cameras will be installed in the course of this year….
Prebiotic chemicals—amino acid and phosphorus—in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger, Akiva Bar-Nun, Jean-Jacques Berthelier, Andre Bieler, Peter Bochsler, Christelle Briois, Ursina Calmonte, Michael R. Combi, Hervé Cottin, Johan De Keyser, Frederik Dhooghe, Bjorn Fiethe, Stephen A. Fuselier, Sébastien Gasc, Tamas I….
Influence of mineralogy on the preservation of amino acids under simulated Mars conditionsOPEN ACCESS
Renato dos Santos, Manish Patel, Javier Cuadros, Zita Martins Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “The detection of organic molecules associated with life on Mars is one of…
Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction in AntarcticaOPEN ACCESS
James D. Witts, Rowan J. Whittle, Paul B. Wignall, J. Alistair Crame, Jane E. Francis, Robert J. Newton, Vanessa C. Bowman Nature Communications 7, Article number:11738 doi:10.1038/ncomms11738 Published 26 May 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Debate…
Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs
Katharine L. Robinson, Jessica J. Barnes, Kazuhide Nagashima, Aurélien Thomen, Ian A. Franchi, Gary R. Huss, Mahesh Anand, G. Jeffrey Taylor Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 May 2016 LINK…
Differentiated planetesimal impacts into a terrestrial magma ocean: Fate of the iron core
Jordan D. Kendall, H.J. Melosh Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 448, 15 August 2016, Pages 24–33 LINK “The abundance of moderately siderophile elements (“iron-loving”; e.g. Co, Ni) in the Earth’s mantle is 10 to…
Searching for calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in cometary particles with Rosetta/COSIMA.
Paquette, J. A., Engrand, C., Stenzel, O., Hilchenbach, M., Kissel, J. and the COSIMA Team Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12669 LINK “The calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) found in chondritic meteorites are probably the oldest solar…
Bayes’ theorem and early solar short-lived radionuclides: the case for an unexceptional origin for the solar systemOPEN ACCESS
Edward D. Young In press, ApJ PDF (open access) abstract “The presence of excesses of short-lived radionuclides in the early solar system evidenced in meteorites has been taken as testament to close encounters with exotic…
Siderophile element systematics of IAB complex iron meteorites: New insights into the formation of an enigmatic group
Emily A. Worsham, Katherine R. Bermingham, Richard J. Walker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 May 2016 LINK “Siderophile trace element abundances and the 187Re-187Os isotopic systematics of the metal…
Ca–Al-rich inclusions in carbonaceous chondrites: the oldest solar system objects
M.A. Ivanova Geochemistry International May 2016, Volume 54, Issue 5, pp 387-402 First online: 22 May 2016 LINK “This paper presents a review of recent available data on the first solid condensates of the Solar…
The meteoritic origin of Tutankhamun’s iron dagger blade.
Comelli, D., D’orazio, M., Folco, L., El-Halwagy, M., Frizzi, T., Alberti, R., Capogrosso, V., Elnaggar, A., Hassan, H., Nevin, A., Porcelli, F., Rashed, M. G. and Valentini, G. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12664 LINK…
Chemical Complementarity between the Gas Phase of the Interstellar Medium and the Rocky Material of Our Planetary SystemOPEN ACCESS
Haiyang Wang (RSAA, The Australian National University), Charles H. Lineweaver (RSAA, RSES, The Australian National University) Accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 15th Australian Space Research Conference PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “We…
Production and Recoil Loss of Cosmogenic Nuclides in Presolar Grains
Reto Trappitsch and Ingo Leya Published 2016 May 16 The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 823, Number 1 LINK “Presolar grains are small particles that condensed in the vicinity of dying stars. Some of these grains survived…
Insights into secondary reactions occurring during atmospheric ablation of micrometeoroids.
Court, R. W. and Tan, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12652 LINK “Ablation of micrometeoroids during atmospheric entry yields volatile gases such as water, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide, capable of altering atmospheric chemistry…
A link between oxygen, calcium and titanium isotopes in 26Al-depleted hibonite-rich CAIs from Murchison and implications for the heterogeneity of dust reservoirs in the solar nebula
Levke Kööp, Andrew M. Davis, Daisuke Nakashima, Changkun Park, Alexander N. Krot, Kazuhide Nagashima, Travis J. Tenner, Philipp R. Heck, Noriko T. Kita Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 13 May…
The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites.OPEN ACCESS
Barrett, T. J., Barnes, J. J., Tartèse, R., Anand, M., Franchi, I. A., Greenwood, R. C., Charlier, B. L. A. and Grady, M. M. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12649 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN…
A study of the observed shift in the peak position of olivine Raman spectra as a result of shock induced by hypervelocity impacts.
Harriss, K. H. and Burchell, M. J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12660 LINK “Kuebler et al. (2006) identified variations in olivine Raman spectra based on the composition of individual olivine grains, leading to identification…
Nanomorphology of Itokawa regolith particles:Application to space-weathering processes affecting the Itokawa asteroid
Toru Matsumoto, Akira Tsuchiama, Kentaro Uesugi, Tsukasa Nakano, Masayuki Uesugi, Junya Matsuno, Takashi Nagano, Akira Shimada, Akihisa Takeuchi, Yoshio Suzuki, Tomoki Nakamura, Michihiko Nakamura, Arnold Gucsik, Keita Nagaki, Tatsuhiro Sakaiya, Tadashi Kondo Geochimica et Cosmochimica…
The effect of site geometry, Ti content and Ti oxidation state on the Ti K-edge XANES spectrum of synthetic hibonite
P.M. Doyle, A.J. Berry, P.F. Schofield, J.F.W. Mosselmans Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 May 2016 LINK “The Al-rich oxide hibonite (CaAl12O19) is modelled to be the second mineral to…
Effect of chlorine on near-liquidus crystallization of olivine-phyric shergottite NWA 6234 at 1 GPa: Implication for volatile-induced melting of the Martian mantle.
Farcy, B. J., Gross, J., Carpenter, P., Hicks, J. and Filiberto, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12662 LINK “Martian magmas are thought to be rich in chlorine compared with their terrestrial counterparts. Here, we…
Igneous cooling history of olivine-phyric shergottite Yamato 980459 constrained by dynamic crystallization experiments.
First, E. and Hammer, J. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12659 Article first published online: 10 MAY 2016 LINK “Dynamic crystallization experiments were performed on a liquid having the bulk composition of olivine-phyric shergottite Yamato…
Photostimulated luminescence applicable to pre-screening of potassium-rich phases in chondritic breccias
Tatsunori Yokoyama, Keiji Misawa, Osamu Okano, Haruka Minowa, Takaaki Fukuoka Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry pp 1-9 First online: 10 May 2016 LINK “The identification of alkali-rich components in extraterrestrial materials along with their…
Elephant Moraine 96029, a very mildly aqueously altered and heated CM carbonaceous chondrite: implications for the drivers of parent body processingOPEN ACCESS
Martin R. Lee, Paula Lindgren, Ashley J. King, Richard C. Greenwood, Ian A. Franchi, Robert Sparkes Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 May 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)…
Effect of parent body evolution on equilibrium and kinetic isotope fractionation: a combined Ni and Fe isotope study of iron and stony-iron meteorites
Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Steven Goderis, Marta Costas-Rodríguez, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 May 2016 LINK “Various iron and stony-iron meteorites have been characterized for their…
Cosmic-ray exposure ages of chondrules.
Roth, A. S. G., Metzler, K., Baumgartner, L. P. and Leya, I. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12658 Article first published online: 9 MAY 2016 LINK “If chondrules were exposed to cosmic rays prior to…
Scale-Dependent Measurements of Meteorite Strength: Implications for Asteroid Fragmentation.
Desireé Cotto-Figueroa, Erik Asphaug, Laurence A.J. Garvie, Ashwin Rai, Joel Johnston, Luke Borkowski, Siddhant Datta, Aditi Chattopadhyay, Melissa A. Morris Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 May 2016 LINK “Measuring the strengths of…
Petrology and oxygen isotopic compositions of clasts in HED polymict breccia NWA 5232.
van Drongelen, K. D., Rumble, D. and Tait, K. T. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12651 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 5232, an 18.5 kg polymict eucrite, comprises eucritic and exogenic CM carbonaceous chondrite clasts within…
Petrogenesis of the Northwest Africa 4898 high-Al mare basalt.
Li, S., Hsu, W., Guan, Y., Wang, L. and Wang, Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12663 LINK “Northwest Africa (NWA) 4898 is the only low-Ti, high-Al basaltic lunar meteorite yet recognized. It predominantly consists…
The chlorine isotopic composition of Martian meteorites 1: Chlorine isotope composition of Martian mantle and crustal reservoirs and their interactions.
Williams, J. T., Shearer, C. K., Sharp, Z. D., Burger, P. V., McCubbin, F. M., Santos, A. R., Agee, C. B. and McKeegan, K. D. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12647 LINK “The Martian meteorites…
A new approach to cosmogenic corrections in 40Ar/39Ar chronometry: Implications for the ages of Martian meteorites
W.S. Cassata, L.E. Borg Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 May 2016 LINK “Anomalously old 40Ar/39Ar ages are commonly obtained from Shergottites and are generally attributed to uncertainties regarding the…
Compound chondrule formation via collision of supercooled dropletsOPEN ACCESS
Sota Arakawa, Taishi Nakamoto Updated May 6: PDF (open access) Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 May 2016 LINK “We present a novel model showing that compound chondrules are formed by collisions of…
Mineralogy of iron sulfides in CM1 and CI1 lithologies of the Kaidun breccia: Records of extreme to intense hydrothermal alteration
Harries, D. and Zolensky, M. E. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12648 LINK “The polymict Kaidun microbreccia contains lithologies of C-type chondrites with euhedral iron sulfide crystals of hydrothermal origin. Our FIB-TEM study reveals that…
Oxygen isotopic variations in the outer margins and Wark-Lovering rims of refractory inclusionsOPEN ACCESS
Justin I. Simon, Jennifer E.P. Matzel, Steven B. Simon, D. Kent Ross, Peter K. Weber, Lawrence Grossman Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 May 2016 LINK (open access) “Oxygen isotopic…
Corundum-hibonite inclusions and the environments of high temperature processing in the early solar system
Andrew W. Needham, Scott Messenger, Jangmi Han, Lindsay P. Keller Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 May 2016 LINK “Corundum-bearing Ca-Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) are a rare class of high-temperature condensates…
Origin of molecular oxygen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
O. Mousis, T. Ronnet, B. Brugger, O. Ozgurel, F. Pauzat, Y. Ellinger, R. Maggiolo, P. Wurz, P. Vernazza, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, K. E. Mandt, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, A. Markovits, M. Rubin The…
A protosolar nebula origin for the ices agglomerated by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
O. Mousis, J. I. Lunine, A. Luspay-Kuti, T. Guillot, B. Marty, M. Ali-Dib, P. Wurz, K. Altwegg, A. Bieler, M. Hässig, M. Rubin, P. Vernazza, J. H. Waite The Astrophysical Journal Letters, in press PDF…
Joegoldsteinite: A new sulfide mineral (MnCr2S4) from the Social Circle IVA iron meteorite
Junko Isa, Chi Ma, Alan E. Rubin American Mineralogist 10.2138/am-2016-5594 First Published on May 02, 2016 LINK “Joegoldsteinite, a new sulfide mineral of end-member formula MnCr2S4, was discovered in the Social Circle IVA iron meteorite….
Majindeite, Mg2Mo3O8, a new mineral from the Allende meteorite and a witness to post-crystallization oxidation of a Ca-Al-rich refractory inclusion
Chi Ma, John R. Beckett American Mineralogist 10.2138/am-2016-5399 First Published on May 02, 2016 LINK “Majindeite (IMA 2012-079), Mg2Mo3O8, is a new mineral, occurring as submicrometer-sized crystals with Ni-Fe and Ru-Os-Ir alloys, ± apatite and…
Aligned olivine in the Springwater pallasite.
Fowler-Gerace, N. A., Tait, K. T., Moser, D. E., Barker, I. and Tian, B. Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12650 LINK “The mechanism by which olivine grains became embedded within iron-nickel alloy in pallasite…
Inner solar system material discovered in the Oort cloud
By Karen J. Meech, Bin Yang, Jan Kleyna, Olivier R. Hainaut, Svetlana Berdyugina, Jacqueline V. Keane, Marco Micheli, Alessandro Morbidelli, Richard J. Wainscoat Science Advances 29 Apr 2016: Vol. 2, no. 4, e1600038 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600038…
An Earth-grazing fireball from the Daytime ζ-Perseid shower observed over Spain on 10 June 2012
José M. Madiedo, Francisco Espartero, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Sensi Pastor, José A. de los Reyes Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) on 2016 April 28 PDF (open access) abstract…
Highly siderophile and chalcogen element constraints on the origin of components of the Allende and Murchison meteorites.
Kadlag, Y. and Becker, H. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12653 LINK “187Re-187Os systematics, abundances of highly siderophile elements (HSE: Re, PGE, and Au), chalcogen elements (Te, Se, and S), and some major and minor…
Differentiated impact melt sheets may be a potential source of Hadean detrital zircon
Gavin G. Kenny, Martin J. Whitehouse, Balz S. Kamber Geology DOI: 10.1130/G37898.1 First Published on April 28, 2016 LINK “Constraining the origin and history of very ancient detrital zircons has unique potential for furthering our…
Precise titanium isotope compositions of refractory inclusions in the Allende CV3 chondrite by LA-MC-ICPMS
C.D. Williams, , P.E. Janney1, R.R. Hines, M. Wadhwa Chemical Geology Volume 436, 15 October 2016, Pages 1–10 LINK “We present here analyses of mass-independent effects in the Ti isotope ratios of 17 coarse-grained (compact…
Origin of the eclogitic clasts with graphite-bearing and graphite-free lithologies in the Northwest Africa 801 (CR2) chondrite: Possible origin from a Moon-sized planetary body inferred from chemistry, oxygen isotopes and REE abundances
H. Hiyagon, N. Sugiura, N.T. Kita, M. Kimura, Y. Morishita, Y. Takehana Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 April 2016 LINK “In order to clarify the origin of the eclogitic…
Generating potassium abundance variations in the Solar Nebula
Alexander Hubbard Accepted for publication, ApJ PDF (open access) abstract “An intriguing aspect of chondritic meteorites is that they are complementary: while their separate components have wildly varying abundances, bulk chondrites have nearly solar composition….
Partitioning tungsten between matrix precursors and chondrule precursors through relative settling
Alexander Hubbard Accepted for publication, ApJ update (July 27): LINK PDF (open access) abstract “Recent studies of chondrites have found a tungsten isotopic anomaly between chondrules and matrix. Given the refractory nature of tungsten, this…
Chondritic xenon in the Earth’s mantle
Antonio Caracausi,Guillaume Avice,Peter G. Burnard, Evelyn Füri,Bernard Marty Nature (25 April 2016) | doi:10.1038/nature17434 LINK “Noble gas isotopes are powerful tracers of the origins of planetary volatiles, and the accretion and evolution of the Earth….
