The nature of insoluble organic matter in Sutter’s Mill and Murchison carbonaceous chondrites: Testing the effect of x-ray computed tomography and exploring parent body organic molecular evolution
George D. Cody, Conel M. O’D. Alexander, Dionysis I. Foustoukos, Henner Busemann, Scott Eckley, Aaron S. Burton, Eve L. Berger, Michael Nuevo, Scott A. Sandford, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Harold C. Connolly Jr,…
Limited nitrogen isotopic fractionation during core-mantle differentiation in rocky protoplanets and planets
Damanveer S. Grewal, Tao Sun, Sanath Aithala, Taylor Hough, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Laurence Y. Yeung, Edwin Schauble Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 October 2022 LINK “15N/14N ratios of meteorites are a powerful tool for tracing…
Origin of Nitrogen Isotopic Variations in the Rocky Bodies of the Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Damanveer S. Grewal The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 937, Number 25 October 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Noncarbonaceous (NC; inner solar system) meteorites have lower 15N/14N ratios than carbonaceous (CC; outer solar system) meteorites. Whether…
A very early origin of isotopically distinct nitrogen in inner Solar System protoplanetsOPEN ACCESS
Damanveer S. Grewal, Rajdeep Dasgupta & Bernard Marty Nature Astronomy (2021) LINK Preprint (differs from the journal version) PDF (OPEN ACCESS)Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Understanding the origin of life-essential volatiles such as nitrogen (N) in…
Explaining the Variations in Isotopic Ratios in Meteoritic Amino AcidsOPEN ACCESS
Michael A. Famiano, Richard N. Boyd, Toshitaka Kajino, Satoshi Chiba, Yirong Mo, Takashi Onaka, Toshi Suzuki PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (6 August 2020): LINK “Measurements of the isotopic abundances in meteoritic amino acids have found…
A Lower Limit of Atmospheric Pressure on Early Mars Inferred from Nitrogen and Argon Isotopic Compositions
Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Kosuke Kurosawa, Tomohiro Usui Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 24 August 2017 LINK “Highlights • Isotopic composition of early atmosphere recorded in ALH 84001 has been reported • Taking escape/replenishment processes…
Indigenous nitrogen in the Moon: Constraints from coupled nitrogen–noble gas analyses of mare basalts
Evelyn Füri, Peter H. Barry, Lawrence A. Taylor, Bernard Marty Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 431, 1 December 2015, Pages 195–205 LINK
Nitrogen isotope variations in the Solar System
Evelyn Füri, Bernard Marty Nature Geoscience (2015) review doi:10.1038/ngeo2451 Published online 15 June 2015 LINK
Synthesis of refractory organic matter in the ionized gas phase of the solar nebula
Maïa Kuga, Bernard Marty, Yves Marrocchi, and Laurent Tissandier PNAS2015 ; published ahead of print May 26, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1502796112 PDF (full text) abstract