On the discovery of meteoritic mineral Zolenskyite; The artificial origin should not be overlookedOPEN ACCESS
Boutros Pierre Embaid Submitted to journal for peer review, feedback is welcome and appreciated PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Recently a new meteoritic mineral, Zolenskyite (Fe0.99Mn0.04Ca0.01Cr1.99S3.98), was discovered from the Indarch meteorite. Zolenskyite was structurally indexed as…
The Suizhou meteorite: A treasure trove of high-pressure minerals
Xiande Xie, Luca Bindi, Ming Chen & Xiangping Gu Acta Geochimica, Published: 09 April 2025 LINK “The Suizhou meteorite is a heavily shock-metamorphosed L6 chondrite which contains thin shock melt veins. So far, 26 high-pressure…
New high-pressure Fe-Ti oxide minerals in the Shergotty Martian meteorite: Feiite, Fe2+2(Fe2+Ti4+)O5, liuite, FeTiO3, and tschaunerite, (Fe2+)(Fe2+Ti4+)O4
Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, John R. Beckett, Vitali B. Prakapenka MAPS, Version of Record online: 29 December 2024 LINK “High-pressure oxides like perovskite-type FeTiO3, CaTi2O4-type Fe2TiO4, and ferrous-ferric oxides that form polysomes between wüstite and…
Shock-recovered maskelynite indicates low-pressure ejection of shergottites from MarsOPEN ACCESS
Jinping Hu, Paul D. Asimow, Yang Liu, and Chi Ma Science Advances3 May 2023Vol 9, Issue LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Diaplectic feldspathic glass, commonly known as maskelynite, is a widely used impact indicator, notably…
Donwilhelmsite, [CaAl4Si2O11], a new lunar high-pressure Ca-Al-silicate with relevance for subducted terrestrial sediments
Jörg Fritz, Ansgar Greshake, Mariana Klementova, Richard Wirth, Lukas Palatinus, Reidar G. Trønnes,Vera Assis Fernandes, Ute Böttger, Ludovic Ferrière American Mineralogist (2020) 105 (11): 1704–1711. LINK “We report on the occurrence of a new high-pressure…
Chenmingite, FeCr2O4 in the CaFe2O4-type structure, a shock-induced, high-pressure mineral in the Tissint martian meteorite
Chi Ma; Oliver Tschauner; John R. Beckett; Yang Liu; Eran Greenberg; Vitali B. Prakapenka American Mineralogist October 01, 2019, Vol.104, 1521-1525. doi:10.2138/am-2019-6999 LINK “Chenmingite (FeCr2O4; IMA 2017-036) is a high-pressure mineral, occurring as micrometer- to…
High pressure minerals in the Château-Renard (L6) ordinary chondrite: implications for collisions on its parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Ioannis Baziotis, Paul D. Asimow, Jinping Hu, Ludovic Ferrière, Chi Ma, Ana Cernok, Mahesh Anand & Dan Topa Scientific Reportsvolume 8, Article number: 9851 (2018) LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the first…
Liebermannite, KAlSi3O8, a new shock-metamorphic, high-pressure mineral from the Zagami Martian meteorite
Ma, C., Tschauner, O., Beckett, J. R., Rossman, G. R., Prescher, C., Prakapenka, V. B., Bechtel, H. A. and MacDowell, A. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13000 LINK “In this paper, we discuss the occurrence…
Transmission electron microscopic study of the fine-grained vein matrix in the Suizhou L6 meteorite
Xie Xiande , Wang Jianbo, Gu Xiangping, Xiong Yi, Jia Shuangfeng Acta Geochimica June 2016, Volume 35, Issue 2, pp 105-110 LINK “The mineralogy of shock vein matrix in the Suizhou meteorite has been investigated…
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)
