A terrestrial rock instead of an ureilite: Caution is recommended to scientists working on material received from meteorite collections
Lidia Pittarello, Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Oscar Marchhart, Martin Martschini, Silke Merchel, Alexander Wieser, Frank Vanhaecke, Steven Goderis MAPS, Version of Record online: 13 August 2025 LINK “Planetary scientists heavily depend on meteorite curation facilities for…
On the spatiotemporal coincidence of meteorites in recent fall search campaignsOPEN ACCESS
P. Grèbol-Tomàs, E. Peña-Asensio, J. M. Trigo-Rodríguez, J. Ibáñez-Insa Accepted for publication in MNRAS, preprint 6 August 2025 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (9 August 2025): Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Published: 08 August…
An atlas of apatite and merrillite in martian meteorites: REE Geochemistry and a new tool for shergottite classificationOPEN ACCESS
Tahnee Burke, Andrew G. Tomkins, Zsanett Pinter, Andrew D. Langendam, Laura A. Miller MAPS, Version of Record online: 22 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The phosphates, apatite and merrillite, are accessory phases in…
Northwest Africa 13489: A Strongly Metamorphosed Ungrouped Carbonaceous ChondriteOPEN ACCESS
T. Cuppone, C. Carli, M. Casalini, A. Stephant, C. R. Greenwood, G. Pratesi MAPS, Version of Record online: 21 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “NWA 13489 is a meteorite that has been classified…
Classifying meteorites with MetNet: A deep learning approach using reflectance spectroscopy
Roshan Nath, Soham Mali, Denesh K., Neha Panwar, Abhishek J. Verma, Avadh Kumar, Ramakant R. Mahajan, Amit Basu Sarbadhikari, M. E. Varela, Shuhrat A. Ehgamberdiev, Tvisha Kapadia, Neeraj Srivastava MAPS, Version of Record online: 27…
Tracking and dating incipient melting of a new grouplet of primitive achondrites
Yun Jiang, Ye Li, Jia Liu, Qing Wang, Li-Ping Qin, Ke Zhu, Shiyong Liao, Zongjun Yin, Yongbo Peng, Piers Koefoed, Weibiao Hsu Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 26 January 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Primitive achondrites,…
Tissemouminites: A new group of primitive achondrites spanning the transition between acapulcoites and winonaitesOPEN ACCESS
A. Stephant, C. Carli, M. Anand, A. Néri, J. Davidson, G. Pratesi, T. Cuppone, R. C. Greenwood, I. A. Franchi MAPSVersion of Record online:28 December 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Northwest Africa (NWA) 090 meteorite, initially classified as an acapulcoite, presents…
Meteorite petrology versus genetics: Toward a unified binominal classificationOPEN ACCESS
Emmanuel Jacquet MAPSVersion of Record online: 13 August 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The current meteorite taxonomy, a result of two centuries of meteorite research and tradition, entangles textural and genetic terms in a…
Petrology of Ungrouped and Anomalous Achondrites SaU 493, NWA 4470, NWA 6962, and NWA 5297
D. R. Dunlap, Y. J. Ku, L. A. J. Garvie, M. Wadhwa 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2015), Abstract #2570 PDF LINK
Meteoritical Bulletin updates
- Northwest Africa 18175 (L3)
- Northwest Africa 18171 (LL3)
- Northwest Africa 18172 (Eucrite-br)
- Northwest Africa 18170 (Eucrite-pmict)
- Hassi Khebi 003 (Howardite-melt breccia)
- Hassi Khebi 002 (Diogenite-pm)
- Northwest Africa 17888 (LL7)
- Northwest Africa 2916 (Eucrite-br)
- Gadoufaoua 001 (L3)
- Northwest Africa 16009 (CK3)
- Northwest Africa 17095 (Iron, IAB-sLH)
- Northwest Africa 17094 (Iron, IAB-sHL)
- Northwest Africa 17093 (Iron, IIIAB)
- Northeast Africa 068 (Iron, IIIAB)
- Northwest Africa 17598 (CK5)
- Northeast Africa 083 (Lunar)
- Northwest Africa 17286 (Iron, IAB-sLM)
- Northwest Africa 16785 (CR2)
- Northwest Africa 5512 (Enst achon-ung)
- Northwest Africa 16526 (Pallasite, ungrouped)
