Meteorites and the RNA world II: Synthesis of Nucleobases in Carbonaceous Planetesimals and the Role of Initial Volatile ContentOPEN ACCESS
Klaus Paschek, Dmitry A. Semenov, Ben K. D. Pearce, Kevin Lange, Thomas K. Henning, Ralph E. Pudritz Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Prebiotic molecules, fundamental building blocks for the origin of life,…
Addendum: Meteoritic evidence for a Ceres-sized water-rich carbonaceous chondrite parent asteroidOPEN ACCESS
V. E. Hamilton, C. A. Goodrich, A. H. Treiman, H. C. Connolly Jr, M. E. Zolensky & M. H. Shaddad Nature AstronomyPublished: 25 October 2021 LINK Addendum to Nature Astronomy Meteoritic evidence for a Ceres-sized…
Constraints on the ice composition of carbonaceous chondrites from their magnetic mineralogy
Sanjana Sridhar, James F.J. Bryson, Ashley J. King, Richard J. Harrison Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 576, 15 December 2021, 117243 LINK “Highlights • Aqueous alteration was a key event during the history of carbonaceous…
Organic matter in carbonaceous chondrite lithologies of Almahata Sitta: Incorporation of previously unsampled carbonaceous chondrite lithologies into ureilitic regolith
Yoko Kebukawa, Michael. E. Zolensky, Cyrena A. Goodrich, Motoo Ito, Nanako O. Ogawa, Yoshinori Takano, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Kento Kiryu, Motoko Igisu, Takazo Shibuya, Matthew A. Marcus, Takuji Ohigashi, James Martinez, Yu Kodama, Muawia H. Shaddad,…
Minimum perihelion distances and associated dwell times for near-Earth asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Athanasia Toliou, Mikael Granvik, Georgios Tsirvoulis Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stab1934Published: 08 July 2021 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) (preprint) “The observed near-Earth asteroid population contains very few objects with small perihelion distances,…
Apatite halogen and hydrogen isotope constraints on the conditions of hydrothermal alteration in carbonaceous chondrites
Maxime Piralla, Romain Tartèse, Yves Marrocchi, Katherine H. Joy Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 26 March 2021 LINK “Apatite has been widely used for assessing the volatile inventory and hydrothermal fluid compositions of…
A Study of Chromium and Silicon Nitrides in Carbonaceous Chondrites
Leitner J., Vollmer C., Harries D., Kodolányi J., Ott U., et al. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1878 PDF “We identified Si3N4 and CrN in metal-sulfide grains in a set of carbonaceous…
Stalking a Large Carbonaceous Chondrite Asteroid Using ε54Cr-Δ17O Isotope Systematics of the Unique Xenolith Almahata Sitta 202
Miller A. M., Dey S., Yin Q.-Z., Goodrich C. A., Hamilton V. E., et al. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #2360 PDF “Xenolithic clast, unique among the regolith: Who was your parent?”
Short Cosmic-Ray Exposure Ages of CI and CM Chondrites May Reflect Disintegration of Volatile-Rich Asteroids at Perihelion
E. R. D. Scott, Herzog G. F. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1833 PDF “Dark, volatile-rich asteroids seem to disintegrate near the Sun. This may explain why CM and CI chondrites have…
Parent Body Processing in CR Chondrites Recorded by Noble Gases
H. Busemann, Schrader D. L., Alexander C. M. O’D., Spring N. H., Kuga M. et al. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #2718 PDF “Noble gases measured in a large number of CR…
Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Water in the Ungrouped Carbonaceous Chondrite Tagish Lake
L. G. Vacher, Ogliore R. C., Liu N. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #2528 PDF “We evaluate the δD value of the water in Tagish Lake (TL) from in-situ Si/H and δD…
Round up the unusual suspects: Near-Earth Asteroid 17274 (2000 LC16) a plausible D-type parent body of the Tagish Lake meteorite
Gordon M. Gartrelle, Paul S. Hardersen, Matthew R.M. Izawa, Matthew C. Nowinski IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 February 2021 LINK “Highlights • Spectral, visual, mathematical and Shkuratov radiative transfer analyses have determined near-Earth…
The polymict carbonaceous breccia Aguas Zarcas: A potential analog to samples being returned by the OSIRIS‐REx and Hayabusa2 missionsOPEN ACCESS
Imene Kerraouch, Addi Bischoff, Michael E. Zolensky, Andreas Pack, Markus Patzek, Romy D. Hanna, Marc D. Fries, Dennis Harries, Yoko Kebukawa, Loan LeMotoo, ItoZia Rahman Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 2 February 2021 LINK (OPEN…
Primordial porous structure of chondrite parent bodies due to self-gravityOPEN ACCESS
Tomomi Omura, Akiko M. Nakamura Accepted for publication in The Planetary Science Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The porosity of an asteroid is important when studying the evolution of our solar system through small bodies and…
Evidence for the presence of chondrule‐ and CAI‐derived material in an isotopically anomalous Antarctic micrometeorite
Bastien Soens, Martin D. Suttle, Ryoga Maeda, Frank Vanhaecke, Akira Yamaguchi, Matthias Van Ginneken, Vinciane Debaille, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 24 November 2020 LINK “We report the discovery…
Molecular evolution during hydrothermal reactions from formaldehyde and ammonia simulating aqueous alteration in meteorite parent bodies
Yoko Kebukawa, Satoru Nakashima, Hajime Mita, Yasuji Muramatsu, Kensei Kobayashi IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 3 May 2020 LINK “Highlights • Using an in-situ heatable liquid cell, we followed reaction kinetics simulating aqueous alteration…
Evidence for Asteroid Scattering and Distal Solar System Solids From Meteorite PaleomagnetismOPEN ACCESS
James F. J. Bryson, Benjamin P. Weiss, Eduardo A. Lima, Jérôme Gattacceca, and William S. Cassata The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 892, Number 2 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Submitted: 22 October 2021 Asteroid-sized bodies are predicted…
Water abundance in the Tagish Lake meteorite from TGA and IR spectroscopy: Evaluation of aqueous alteration
Cosette M. Gilmour, Christopher D. K. Herd, Pierre Beck Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 22 July 2019 LINK “Here, we evaluate the extent of aqueous alteration among five pristine specimens of the ungrouped Tagish…
D/H diffusion in serpentine
Hélène Pilorge, Bruno Reynard, Laurent Remusat, Sylvie Le Floch, Gilles Montagnac, Hervé Cardon Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 May 2017 LINK “Interactions between aqueous fluids and ultrabasic rocks are…
Modeling Orbital Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy Experiments at Carbonaceous AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Lucy F. Lim, Richard D. Starr, Larry G. Evans, Ann M. Parsons, Michael E. Zolensky, William V. Boynton Accepted to Meteoritics and Planetary Science, September 2016 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) abstract “To evaluate the feasibility of…
