Variations of organic functional chemistry in carbonaceous matter from the asteroid 162173 RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Bradley De Gregorio, George D. Cody, Rhonda M. Stroud, A. L. David Kilcoyne, Scott Sandford, Corentin Le Guillou, Larry R. Nittler, Jens Barosch, Hikaru Yabuta, Zita Martins, Yoko Kebukawa, Taiga Okumura, Minako Hashiguchi, Shohei Yamashita,…
Open questions on carbonaceous matter in meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
Oliver Christ, Fabrizio Nestola & Matteo Alvaro Communications ChemistryVolume 7, article number 118, 2024COMMENT, Open access, Published: 29 May 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Extraterrestrial carbon gives insights into the origin of life and…
Coevolution of phyllosilicate, carbon, sulfide, and apatite in Ryugu’s parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Zack Gainsforth, Gerardo Dominguez, Kana Amano, Megumi Matsumoto, Yuri Fujioka, Eiichi Kagawa, Tomoki Nakamura, Shogo Tachibana, Tomoyo Morita, Mizuha Kikuiri, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Takaaki Noguchi, Ryuji Okazaki, Hikaru Yabuta, Hiroshi Naraoka, Kanako Sakamoto, Toru Yada, Masahiro…
Life on Earth can grow on extraterrestrial organic carbonOPEN ACCESS
Annemiek C. Waajen, Cassio Lima, Royston Goodacre & Charles S. Cockell Scientific Reports, Volume 14, Article number: 3691 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The universe is a vast store of organic abiotic carbon that could…
Investigating Organic Carbon and Thermal History of CM Carbonaceous Chondrites Using Spectroscopy and Laboratory TechniquesOPEN ACCESS
Safoura Tanbakouei, Rui-Lin Cheng, Binlong Ye, Josep Ryan Michalski, Ashley J. King PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The CM chondrites are characterized as primary accretionary rocks which originate from primitive water-rich asteroids formed during the early Solar…
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in samples of Ryugu formed in the interstellar medium
Sarah S. Zeichner, José C. Aponte, Surjyendu Bhattacharjee, Guannan Dong, Amy E. Hofmann, Jason P. Dworkin, Daniel P. Glavin, Jamie E. Elsila, Heather V. Graham, Hiroshi Naraoka, Yoshinori Takano, Shogo Tachibana, Allison T. Karp, Kliti…
Origin of the superchondritic carbon/nitrogen ratio of the bulk silicate Earth − an outlook from iron meteorites
Damanveer S. Grewal, Paul D. Asimow Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 20 January 2023 LINK “Disagreement regarding the origin of the bulk silicate Earth’s (BSE) superchondritic carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio is due, in part, to the…
The photochemical evolution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and nontronite clay on early Earth and MarsOPEN ACCESS
Nina Kopacz, Maria Angela Corazzi, Giovanni Poggiali, Ayla von Essen, Vincent Kofman, Teresa Fornaro, Hugo van Ingen, Eloi Camprubi, Helen E. King, John Brucato, Inge Loes ten Kate IcarusAvailable online 18 January 2023, 115437 LINK…
Carbon Depletion in the Early Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS
Fabian Binkert, Til Birnstiel Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Earth and other rocky objects in the inner Solar System are depleted in carbon compared to objects in the outer Solar System, the…
The Lunar Breccia Dhofar 1442: Noble Gases, Nitrogen, and Carbon Released by Stepwise Combustion and CrushingOPEN ACCESS
E. V. Korochantseva, A. B. Verchovsky & A. V. Korochantsev Geochemistry International, Volume 60, pages 1192–1206Published: 08 December 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Stepwise crushing and combustion methods were applied to study the KREEP-rich…
Origin of life-forming volatile elements in the inner Solar System
Michael W. Broadley, David V. Bekaert, Laurette Piani, Evelyn Füri & Bernard Marty NatureReview, Published: 09 November 2022 LINK “Volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are essential ingredients to build habitable worlds…
Bulk composition and thermal evolution constrain the formation of organics in Ceres’ subsurface ocean via geochemical modeling
Jack Diab, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Julie Castillo-Rogez IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 4 November 2022 LINK “Highlights • Organic formed in the subsurface ocean are controlled by temperature and redox conditions• Under a CI…
Internal or external magma oceans in the earliest protoplanets – Perspectives from nitrogen and carbon fractionation
Damanveer S. Grewal, Johnny D. Seales, Rajdeep Dasgupta Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 598, 15 November 2022, 117847 LINK “Highlights • Fractionation of N and C into the cores of iron meteorite parent bodies via…
Nitrogen isotope evidence for Earth’s heterogeneous accretion of volatilesOPEN ACCESS
Lanlan Shi, Wenhua Lu, Takanori Kagoshima, Yuji Sano, Zenghao Gao, Zhixue Du, Yun Liu, Yingwei Fei & Yuan Li Nature Communications, Volume 13, Article number: 4769 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of major…
Organic carbon concentrations in 3.5-billion-year-old lacustrine mudstones of MarsOPEN ACCESS
Jennifer C. Stern, Charles A. Malespin, Jennifer L. Eigenbrode, Christopher R. Webster, Greg Flesch, Heather B. Franz, Heather V. Graham, Christopher H. House, Brad Sutter, Paul Douglas Archer Jr., Amy E. Hofmann, Amy C. McAdam,…
Numerous chondritic impactors and oxidized magma ocean set Earth’s volatile depletionOPEN ACCESS
Haruka Sakuraba, Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Hidenori Genda & Kenji Ohta Scientific Reports, Volume 11, Article number: 20894 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Earth’s surface environment is largely influenced by its budget of major volatile elements:…
Extra-Terrestrial Carbon and Water Molecule in Mukundpura Carbonaceous Chondrite (CM2)
A. Dutta, Raychaudhuri D., Nevin C. G., Bhattacharya A. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1869 PDF “In the present study, LRS and FTIR spectroscopy has been carried out to determine qualitative and…
Isotopic Composition of Noble Gases, Nitrogen, and Carbon in the Ozerki New L Chondrite
E. V. Korochantseva, A. B. Verchovsky, A. I. Buikin, K. A. Lorents & A. V. Korochantsev Geochemistry International, Volume 58, pages 1239–1256(2020) LINK “The isotopic composition of noble gases, nitrogen, and carbon in two samples…
Did a Complex Carbon Cycle Operate in the Inner Solar System?OPEN ACCESS
Joseph A. Nuth, Frank T. Ferguson, Hugh G. M. Hill and Natasha M. Johnson Life 2020, 10(9), 206 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (DOWNLOAD) “Solids in the interstellar medium consist of an intimate mixture of silicate and…
Influence of Seymchan Meteorite Structure on the Growth and Properties of Carbon Nanotubes
Anastasia S. Begunova, Grigoriy A. Yakovlev, Robert V. Kamalov, Elizaveta A. Pankrushina, Victor I. Grokhovsky Minerals: Structure, Properties, Methods of Investigation pp 27-35, Conference paper LINK “Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition…
KAGUYA observation of global emissions of indigenous carbon ions from the MoonOPEN ACCESS
Shoichiro Yokota*, Kentaro Terada, Yoshifumi Saito, Daiba Kato, Kazushi Asamura, Masaki N. Nishino, Hisayoshi Shimizu, Futoshi Takahashi, Hidetoshi Shibuya, Masaki Matsushima and Hideo Tsunakawa Science Advances 06 May 2020:Vol. 6, no. 19, eaba1050DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1050 LINK…
A TEM and EELS study of carbon in a melt fragment from the Gardnos impact structureOPEN ACCESS
Paula Lindgren, Lydia Hallis, Fredrik S. Hage, Martin R. Lee, John Parnell, Anders Plan, Alistair Doye, Ian MacLaren Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 29 August 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A carbon‐rich…
Redistribution of Sr and rare earth elements in the matrices of CV3 carbonaceous chondrites during aqueous alteration in their parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Kaori Jogo, Motoo Ito, Tomoki Nakamura, Sachio Kobayashi, Jong Ik Lee Earth, Planets and Space December 2018, 70:37 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We measured the abundances of Sr and rare earth elements (REEs)…
Ultraviolet spectral reflectance of carbonaceous materials
Daniel M. Applin, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Edward A. Cloutis, Jeffrey J. Gillis-Davis, Karly M. Pitman, Ted L. Roush, Amanda R. Hendrix, Paul G. Lucey Icarus Volume 307, June 2018, Pages 40–82 LINK “Highlights • The…
Carbon-rich dust in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko measured by COSIMA/Rosetta
UPDATE (24 January 2018) Errata: Searching for calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in cometary particles with Rosetta/COSIMA LINK Anaïs Bardy, Donia Baklouti, Hervé Cottin, Nicolas Fray, Christelle Briois, John Paquette, Oliver Stenzel, Cécile Engrand, Henning Fischer, Klaus Hornung,…
Spatial distribution of carbon dust in the early solar nebula and the carbon content of planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Hans-Peter Gail, Mario Trieloff A&A Volume 606, October 2017 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Context. A high fraction of carbon bound in solid carbonaceous material is observed to exist in bodies formed in the cold outskirts of…
The spatial distribution of carbon dust in the early solar nebula and the carbon content of planetesimalsOPEN ACCESS
Hans-Peter Gail, Mario Trieloff accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A high fraction of carbon bound in solid carbonaceous material is observed to exist in bodies formed in the cold outskirts of the…
Ion Microprobe Analyses of Carbon in Fe-Ni Metal in Iron Meteorites and Mesosiderites
Joseph I. Goldstein, Gary R. Huss, Edward R.D. Scott Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 December 2016 LINK “Carbon concentrations in kamacite, taenite, and plessite (kamacite-taenite intergrowths) were measured in…
Carbon and sulfur budget of the silicate Earth explained by accretion of differentiated planetary embryos
Yuan Li, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Kyusei Tsuno, Brian Monteleone & Nobumichi Shimizu Nature Geoscience doi:10.1038/ngeo2801 Published online 05 September 2016 LINK “The abundances of volatile elements in the Earth’s mantle have been attributed to the delivery…
The UV signature of carbon in the solar system.
Hendrix, A. R., Vilas, F. and Li, J.-Y. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.12575 LINK “Carbon compounds are ubiquitous in the solar system but are challenging to study using remote sensing due to the mostly…
Carbon-rich Planet Formation in a Solar Composition Disk
Ali-Dib M, Mousis O, Jean-Marc Petit J-M and Lunine JI (2014) The Astrophysical Journal 785:125. ApJ 785 125. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/125 LINK