Characterization of iron meteorites by scanning electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, magnetization measurements, and Mössbauer spectroscopy: Mundrabilla IAB-ung
M. V. Goryunov, G. Varga, Z. Dankházi, A. V. Chukin, I. Felner, E. Kuzmann, V. I. Grokhovsky, Z. Homonnay, M. I. Oshtrakh MAPSVersion of Record online: 11 September 2023 LINK “A fragment of Mundrabilla IAB-ung…
An arrowhead made of meteoritic iron from the late Bronze Age settlement of Mörigen, Switzerland and its possible sourceOPEN ACCESS
Beda A. Hofmann, Sabine Bolliger Schreyer, Sayani Biswas, Lars Gerchow, Daniel Wiebe, Marc Schumann, Sebastian Lindemann, Diego Ramírez García, Pierre Lanari, Frank Gfeller, Carlos Vigo, Debarchan Das, Fabian Hotz, Katharina von Schoeler, Kazuhiko Ninomiya, Megumi…
The El Ali (Somalia) IAB Iron Meteorite: New Minerals Reflecting Unusual Conditions of Formation
Herd C. D. K.* Locock A. J. Saini R. Ma C. 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2023 abstract [#2220] Giant iron mass / Reveals three new minerals / Scientists elation.
Xenon in the Protoplanetary Disk (PPD), in Two Planets, and a CometOPEN ACCESS
Kurt Marti and K. J. Mathew The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 940, Number 1Published: 16 November 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Isotopic anomalies in several elements, as recently observed in meteorites, are generally interpreted to…
Cooling rates and impact histories of group IAB and other IAB complex iron meteorites inferred from zoned taenite and the cloudy zone
Joseph I. Goldstein, Edward R. D. Scott, Timothy B. Winfield, Jijin Yang Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 18 October 2021 LINK “Metallographic cooling rates of 10–20 K Myr−1 were obtained for four IAB…
Metallographic Cooling Rate and Petrogenesis of the Recently Found Huoyanshan Iron Meteorite Shower
Nian Wang, Guiqin Wang, Ting Zhang, Lixin Gu, Chi Zhang, Sen Hu, Bingkui Miao, Yangting Lin JGR: PlanetsFirst Published: 02 September 2021 LINK “The Huoyanshan iron meteorite shower, recently found in the Gobi Desert of…
Neutron capture 128Xe and 129Xe in the San Juan mass of the Campo del Cielo IAB iron meteorite: Evidence for a high fluence of thermalized neutronsOPEN ACCESS
O. Pravdivtseva, M. E. Varela, A. Meshik, A. J. Campbell, M. Saavedra, D. Topa, Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 09 July 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The petrographic study of the San…
Amino acid abundances and compositions in iron and stony‐iron meteorites
Jamie E. Elsila, Natasha M. Johnson, Daniel P. Glavin, José C. Aponte, Jason P. Dworkin Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceVersion of Record online: 25 March 2021 LINK “The organic compositions of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites have been…
Excellent mechanical properties of taenite in meteoric ironOPEN ACCESS
Shohei Ueki, Yoji Mine & Kazuki Takashima Scientific Reports 11 , 1–8 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteoric iron is the metal that humans first obtained and used in the earliest stage of metal culture….
New implications for the origin of the IAB main group iron meteorites and the isotopic evolution of the noncarbonaceous (NC) reservoir
Connor D.Hilton, Richard J.Walker Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 540, 15 June 2020, 116248 LINK “Highlights • The IAB-MG iron meteorites have a μ182W value of −295 ± 3.• The IAB-MG are constrained to have…
Petrography, geochemistry and classification of ten new iron meteorites from Northwest Africa and Chile
Massimo D’Orazio Periodico di MineralogiaVol 89, No 1 (2020) LINK “I present detailed petrographic descriptions and major- and trace-element data on a set of ten new iron meteorites (irons) from Nortwest Africa and the Atacama…
Origin and age of metal veins in Canyon Diablo graphite nodules
Connor D. Hilton, Richard D. Ash, Philip M. Piccoli, David A. Kring, Timothy J. McCoy, Richard J. Walker Meteoritics & Planetary ScienceFirst Published: 9 April 2020 LINK “Previous studies attributed the origin of metal veins…
Superconductivity found in meteorites
James Wampler, Mark Thiemens, Shaobo Cheng, Yimei Zhu, and Ivan K. Schuller PNAS, first published March 23, 2020 LINK “Meteorites can contain a wide range of material phases due to the extreme environments found in…
Galactic cosmic ray effects on iron and nickel isotopes in iron meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
David L. Cook, Ingo Leya, Maria Schönbächler Meteoritics & Planetary Science LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We present model calculations for cosmogenic production rates in order to quantify the potential effects of spallation and…
The origin of s-process isotope heterogeneity in the solar protoplanetary diskOPEN ACCESS
Mattias Ek, Alison C. Hunt, Maria Lugaro & Maria Schönbächler Nature Astronomy , 1–9 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) LINK “Rocky asteroids and planets display nucleosynthetic isotope variations that are attributed to the heterogeneous distribution of stardust…
Edscottite, Fe5C2, a new iron carbide mineral from the Ni-rich Wedderburn IAB iron meteorite
Chi Ma and Alan E. Rubin American Mineralogist, Volume 104, pages 1351–1355, 2019 LINK PDF “Edscottite (IMA 2018-086a), Fe5C2, is a new iron carbide mineral that occurs with low-Ni iron (kamacite), taenite, nickelphosphide (Ni-dominant schreibersite),…
The chlorine isotope composition of iron meteorites: Evidence for the Cl isotope composition of the solar nebula and implications for extensive devolatilization during planet formation
Anthony Gargano, Zachary Sharp Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 8 May 2019 LINK “The bulk chlorine concentrations and isotopic compositions of a suite of non‐carbonaceous (NC) and carbonaceous (CC) iron meteorites were measured using…
The layered structure model for winonaite parent asteroid implicated by textural and mineralogical diversityOPEN ACCESS
Xiaojia Zeng, Yingli Shang, Shijie LiEmail author, Xiongyao Li, Shijie Wang and Yang Li Earth, Planets and Space 2019 71:38, Published: 2 April 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The winonaites are primitive achondrites that are…
Planetary Genealogy of Iron Meteorites and Pallasites Using ε54Cr-Δ17O Isotope Systematics
S. Dey, Q.-Z. Yin, M. E. Sanborn, K. Ziegler, T. J. McCoy 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2019), Abstract #2977 PDF abstract
Mineralogy and microstructure of the Morasko meteorite crust
Agata Duczma-Czernikiewicz, Danuta Michalska Planetary and Space Science Available online 30 June 2018 LINK “Highlights • Diversity of contact area between the Morasko meteorite fragment (IAB) and its outer zone – bearing traces of the…
Microstructural and Paleomagnetic Insight into the Cooling History of the IAB Parent Body
Claire I.O. Nichols, Robert Krakow, Julia Herrero-Albillos, Florian Kronast, Geraint Northwood-Smitha, Richard J. Harrisona Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 15 March 2018 LINK “The IABs represent one of only two…
Altaite (PbTe) in the Maslyanino Iron Meteorite with Silicate Inclusions
K. D. Litasov, D. S. Ponomarev, I. S. Bazhan, A. Ishikawa, N. M. Podgornykh, N. P. Pokhilenko Doklady Earth Sciences January 2018, Volume 478, Issue 1, pp 79–81 LINK “Data are presented on the discovery…
Castelvecchio and Castiglione del Lago: Two new Italian iron meteorites
V. Moggi Cecchi, G. Pratesi, S. Caporali, C. D. K. Herd, G. Chen The European Physical Journal Plus August 2017, 132:359 LINK “Until 2016 only 38 Italian meteorites have been classified and published on the…
Thermal equilibration of iron meteorite and pallasite parent bodies recorded at the mineral scale by Fe and Ni isotope systematics
Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Mona Weyrauch, Steven Goderis, Martin Oeser, Seann J. McKibbin, Ingo Horn, Lutz Hecht, Stefan Weyer, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 August 2017…
Platinum isotopes in iron meteorites: galactic cosmic ray effects and nucleosynthetic homogeneity in the p-process isotope 190Pt and the other Platinum isotopes
Alison C. Hunt, Mattias Ek, Maria Schönbächler Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 29 May 2017 LINK “Platinum isotopes are sensitive to the effects of galactic cosmic rays (GCR), which can…
Characterizing cosmochemical materials with genetic affinities to the Earth: Genetic and chronological diversity within the IAB iron meteorite complex
Emily A. Worsham, Katherine R. Bermingham, Richard J. Walker Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof Available online 11 April 2017 LINK “Highlights • Some IAB subgroups are the closest genetic relations to…
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…
Distribution of p-process 174Hf in early solar system materials and the origin of nucleosynthetic Hf and W isotope anomalies in Ca–Al rich inclusions
Stefan T.M. Peters, Carsten Münker, Markus Pfeifer, Bo-Magnus Elfers, Peter Sprung Earth and Planetary Science Letters In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 November 2016 LINK “Highlights • Chondrites, eucrites and Earth carry uniform p-process…
A geochemical study of the winonaites: Evidence for limited partial melting and constraints on the precursor composition
Alison C. Hunt, Gretchen K. Benedix, Samantha J. Hammond, Philip A. Bland, Mark Rehkämper, Katharina Kreissig, Stanislav Strekopytov Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 November 2016 LINK “The winonaites are…
Microstructures, mineral chemistry, noble gases and nitrogen in the recent fall, Bhuka iron (IAB) meteorite
S.V.S. Murty, P.M. Ranjith, Dwijesh Ray, S. Ghosh, Basab Chattopadhyay, K.L. Shrivastava Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 26 August 2016 LINK “Highlights • Bhuka iron meteorite has been classified as…
Siderophile element systematics of IAB complex iron meteorites: New insights into the formation of an enigmatic group
Emily A. Worsham, Katherine R. Bermingham, Richard J. Walker Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 May 2016 LINK “Siderophile trace element abundances and the 187Re-187Os isotopic systematics of the metal…
Effect of parent body evolution on equilibrium and kinetic isotope fractionation: a combined Ni and Fe isotope study of iron and stony-iron meteorites
Stepan M. Chernonozhkin, Steven Goderis, Marta Costas-Rodríguez, Philippe Claeys, Frank Vanhaecke Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 9 May 2016 LINK “Various iron and stony-iron meteorites have been characterized for their…
Meteorite-catalyzed syntheses of nucleosides and of other prebiotic compounds from formamide under proton irradiation
Raffaele Saladino, Eleonora Carota, Giorgia Botta, Mikhail Kapralov, Gennady N. Timoshenko, Alexei Y. Rozanov, Eugene Krasavin, and Ernesto Di Mauro PNAS 2015 ; published ahead of print April 13, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1422225112 LINK Supporting information (PDF)
Early inner solar system origin for anomalous sulfur isotopes in differentiated protoplanets
Michael A. Antonelli, Sang-Tae Kim, Marc Peters, Jabrane Labidi, Pierre Cartigny, Richard J. Walker, James R. Lyons, Joost Hoek, and James Farquhar PNAS2014 111 (50)17749-17754; published ahead of print December 1, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418907111 LINK
I-Xe ages of Campo del Cielo silicates as a record of the complex early history of the IAB parent body
Pravdivtseva, O., Meshik, A., Hohenberg, C. M. and Kurat, G. (2013) Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48: 2480–2490. doi: 10.1111/maps.12233 LINK