Analytical Description of Fragment Mass Distributions at Disruption of Cosmic Bodies in the Atmosphere and in Impact Experiments

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I. G. Brykina & L. A. Egorova Solar System Research, Volume 60, article number 31, Published: 18 April 2026 LINK “The mass distributions of unevaporated fragments of meteoroids and asteroids disrupted in the atmosphere, as…

Potassium isotope anomalies in meteorites inherited from the protosolar molecular cloudOPEN ACCESS 

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Y. Ku, S. B. Jacobsen Science Advances 09 Oct 2020:Vol. 6, no. 41, eabd0511 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Potassium (K) and other moderately volatile elements are depleted in many solar system bodies relative to…

Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) study of seven heavily metamorphosed chondrites: Deformation systematics and variations in pre-shock temperature and post-shock annealing

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Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) study of seven heavily metamorphosed chondrites: Deformation systematics and variations in pre-shock temperature and post-shock annealing Alex M. Ruzicka, Richard C. Hugo, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available…

Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon

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Kun Wang, Stein B. Jacobsen Nature doi:10.1038/nature19341 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “The Earth–Moon system has unique chemical and isotopic signatures compared with other planetary bodies1, 2, 3; any successful model for the origin…

Deformation and thermal histories of ordinary chondrites: Evidence for post-deformation annealing and syn-metamorphic shock

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Alex Ruzicka, Richard Hugo, Melinda Hutson Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, available online 23 April 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.04.030 LINK

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