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ALMA Confirms Comets Forge Organic Molecules in Their Dusty Atmospheres
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Oxygen Isotopic Composition of an Unusual Clast in the Paris CM Meteorite
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Physical Properties, Structure and Fracturing of the Chelyabinsk LL5 Meteorite Body
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The Unique Differentiated Meteorite NWA 7325: Highly Reduced, Stark Affinities to E-Chondrites and Unknown Parental Planet
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Noble Gas and Mineralogical Studies of NWA 7325 Ungrouped Achondrite
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Abundance and Isotopic Composition of Xenon in the Ungrouped Achondrite NWA 7325
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Thermal Properties of Chelyabinsk Meteorite
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The Smoke Train of the Chelyabinsk Meteoroid
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Hyperbolic meteors: Interstellar or generated locally via the gravitational slingshot effect?
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1.8 ton iron meteorite found near Tschad and Sudan border
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Magnetic properties of the LL5 ordinary chondrite Chelyabinsk (fall of February 15, 2013)
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Mineralogy of Meteorite Chelyabinsk as Determined by Raman Spectroscopy
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Fossil records of high level of 60Fe in chondrules from unequilibrated chondrites
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The Danebury Iron Age meteorite—An H5 ordinary chondrite “find” from Hampshire, England
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Amoeboid olivine aggregates from CH carbonaceous chondrites
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Ion irradiation of Allende meteorite probed by visible, IR, and Raman spectroscopies
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Coordinated NanoSIMS and FIB-TEM Analyses of Organic Matter and Associated Matrix Materials in CR3 Chondrites
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The amino acid composition of the Sutter’s Mill CM2 carbonaceous chondrite
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Chelyabinsk meteorite explains unusual spectral properties of Baptistina Asteroid Family
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Brachinite meteorites: Partial melt residues from an FeO-rich asteroid
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Olivine-rich rims surrounding chondrules in the Mokoia CV3 carbonaceous chondrite: Further evidence for parent-body processes
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Investigation of Pyridine Carboxylic Acids in CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites: Potential Precursor Molecules for Ancient Coenzymes
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The abundance and stability of “water” in type 1 and 2 carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM and CR)
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The Almahata Sitta polymict breccia and the late accretion of asteroid 2008 TC3
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Highly siderophile elements in Earth’s mantle as a clock for the Moon-forming impact
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Carbon-rich Planet Formation in a Solar Composition Disk
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The nature of Earth’s building blocks as revealed by calcium isotopes
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Space weathering of silicate regoliths with various FeO contents: New insights from laser irradiation experiments and theoretical spectral simulations
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The Source Crater of Martian Shergottite Meteorites
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Planetary and pre-solar noble gases in meteorites
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Planetary and pre-solar noble gases in meteorites
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Planetary and pre-solar noble gases in meteorites
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Coordinated Chemical and Isotopic Imaging of Bells (CM2) Meteorite Matrix
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Degree of Aqueous Alteration in CM2 Paris and the Petrography of its Refractory and Amoeboid Olivine Inclusions
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Sub-Micrometer Composition Fields of Acfer 094 and Paris Matrices
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Orbit and Bulk Density of the OSIRIS-REx Target Asteroid (101955) Bennu
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The Sutter’s Mill meteorite: Thermoluminescence data on thermal and metamorphic history
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Detection and rapid recovery of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall as a model for future recoveries worldwide
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Petrology and bulk chemistry of Yamato-82094, a new type of carbonaceous chondrite
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Atom-probe analyses of nanodiamonds from Allende
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Insights into the Martian mantle: The age and isotopics of the meteorite fall Tissint
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The secondary history of Sutter’s Mill CM carbonaceous chondrite based on water abundance and the structure of its organic matter from two clasts.
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39Ar-40Ar chronology of the enstatite chondrite parent bodies
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Mid-infrared study of stones from the Sutter’s Mill meteorite
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A comprehensive study of distribution laws for the fragments of Košice meteorite
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Petrogenesis of anomalous Queen Alexandra Range enstatite meteorites and their relation to enstatite chondrites, primitive enstatite achondrites, and aubrites
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Quantified, whole section trace element mapping of carbonaceous chondrites by Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy: 1. CV meteorites
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How Earth was watered Recent findings have wide implications in study of extrasolar life
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Weakly shocked and deformed CM microxenoliths in the Pułtusk H chondrite
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Sutter’s Mill dicarboxylic acids as possible tracers of parent-body alteration processes
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U-Pb systematics of the unique achondrite Ibitira: Precise age determination and petrogenetic implications
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Inheritance of solar short- and long-lived radionuclides from molecular clouds and the unexceptional nature of the solar system
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Asteroid 2008 TC3 and the Fall of Almahata Sitta, a Unique Meteorite Breccia
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Testing variations within the Tagish Lake meteorite—I: Mineralogy and petrology of pristine samples
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Formation and Physical Properties of Asteroids
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Evidence for Mo isotope fractionation in the solar nebula and during planetary differentiation
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No evidence for a decrease of nuclear decay rates with increasing heliocentric distance based on radiochronology of meteorites
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Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy
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Alpha-decay of 184Os revealed by radiogenic 180W in meteorites: Half life determination and viability as geochronometer
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Variations in the O-isotope composition of gas during the formation of chondrules from the CR chondrites
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Infrasound detection of the Chelyabinsk meteor at the USArray
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Fe-Ni and Al-Mg isotope records in UOC chondrules: Plausible stellar source of 60Fe and other short-lived nuclides in the early Solar System
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The fate of magmas in planetesimals and the retention of primitive chondritic crusts
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Localized sources of water vapour on the dwarf planet (1) Ceres
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Vanadium isotopic difference between the silicate Earth and meteorites
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On the Injection of Short-lived Radionuclides from a Supernova into the Solar Nebula: Constraints from the Oxygen Isotopes
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U-Pb zircon dating of the lunar meteorite Dhofar 1442
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Origins of Al-rich chondrules: Clues from a compound Al-rich chondrule in the Dar al Gani 978 carbonaceous chondrite
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Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Components in Chondrites: Search for Processed Materials in Young Solar Systems and Comets
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K2O-rich trapped melt in olivine in the Nakhla meteorite: Implications for petrogenesis of nakhlites and evolution of the Martian mantle
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Zinc isotopic composition of iron meteorites: Absence of isotopic anomalies and origin of the volatile element depletion
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The Tajikistan superbolide of July 23, 2008. I. Trajectory, orbit, and preliminary fall data
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I-Xe ages of Campo del Cielo silicates as a record of the complex early history of the IAB parent body
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The abundance and isotopic composition of Cd in iron meteorites
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The lithophile trace elements in enstatite chondrites
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The extremely reduced silicate-bearing iron meteorite Northwest Africa 6583: Implications on the variety of the impact melt rocks of the IAB-complex parent body
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Origin and age of the earliest Martian crust from meteorite NWA 7533
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Major and trace elements of zircons from basaltic eucrites: Implications for the formation of zircons on the eucrite parent body
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Composition and petrology of HED polymict breccias: The regolith of (4) Vesta
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Dawn; the Vesta–HED connection; and the geologic context for eucrites, diogenites, and howardites
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Nepheline and sodalite in the matrix of the Ningqiang carbonaceous chondrite: Implications for formation through parent-body processes
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Highly stable meteoritic organic compounds as markers of asteroidal delivery
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Planetary science: A chunk of ancient Mars
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Near-infrared Spectroscopy of 3:1 Kirkwood Gap Asteroids II: Probable and Plausible Parent Bodies; Primitive and Differentiated
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Instrumental neutron activation analyses of the most Earth-like meteorites
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Shock synthesis of amino acids from impacting cometary and icy planet surface analogues
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Transmission infrared spectra (2-25 microns) of carbonaceous chondrites (CI, CM, CV-CK, CR, C2 ungrouped): mineralogy, water, and asteroidal processes
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Magnesium diffusion in plagioclase: Dependence on composition, and implications for thermal resetting of the 26Al–26Mg early solar system chronometer
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Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization
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A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors
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The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk asteroidal impactor
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Relationships between organics, water and early stages of aqueous alteration in the pristine CR3.0 chondrite MET 00426
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Formation of melt droplets, melt fragments, and accretionary impact lapilli during a hypervelocity impact
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Cosmic-ray exposure ages of fossil micrometeorites from mid-Ordovician sediments at Lynna River, Russia
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Magnetic and Nonmagnetic Differentiated Planetesimals
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Constraining the pressure threshold of impact induced calcite twinning: Implications for the deformation history of aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies
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“Sweating meteorites”—Water-soluble salts and temperature variation in ordinary chondrites and soil from the hot desert of Oman
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