Microtextures and structures in metal–sulfide grains in NWA 869 meteorite and their relation to thermal history of L-chondrite parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Paulina Skirak, Gabriela Opiła, Adam Piestrzyński, Gabriela Kozub-Budzyń, Czesław Kapusta MAPS, Version of Record online: 10 February 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Results of microanalysis study of NWA 869 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite, where…
Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
M. Brož, P. Vernazza, M. Marsset, F.E. DeMeo, R.P. Binzel, D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16 October 2024): Nature, Volume 634, pages 566–571 LINK “Understanding the origin of bright shooting stars and…
The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Michaël Marsset, Pierre Vernazza, Miroslav Brož, Cristina A. Thomas, Francesca E. DeMeo, Brian Burt, Richard P. Binzel, Vishnu Reddy, Allison McGraw, Chrysa Avdellidou, Benoit Carry, Stephen M. Slivan, David Polishook PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16…
Unusual sources of fossil micrometeorites deduced from relict chromite in the small size fraction in ~467 Ma old limestoneOPEN ACCESS
Philipp R. Heck, Birger Schmitz, Xenia Ritter, Surya S. Rout, Noriko T. Kita, Céline Defouilloy, Katarina Keating, Kevin Eisenstein, Fredrik Terfelt MAPS, Version of Record online: 02 February 2024 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Extraterrestrial…
Nature and timing of a significant reduction event on the L-chondrite parent asteroidOPEN ACCESS
Alan E. Rubin, Brent D. Turrin MAPS, Version of Record online: 26 October 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “About 17% of L6 chondrites (15/87) show significant reduction features in BSE images in thin section….
In-situ phosphate U-Pb ages of the L chondritesOPEN ACCESS
Craig Robert Walton, Heejin Jeon, Ana Černok, Auriol S.P. Rae, Ioannis Baziotis, Fengzai Tang, Venkata S.C. Kuppili, Ludovic Ferrière, James Darling, Sen Hu, Martin J. Whitehouse, Mahesh Anand, Oliver Shorttle Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In…
Northwest Africa 6486: Record of large impact events and fluid alteration on the L chondrite asteroid
C. A. Lorenz, E. V. Korochantseva, M. A. Ivanova, J. Hopp, I. A. Franchi, M. Humayun, M. O. Anosova, S. N. Teplyakova, M. Trieloff MAPSVersion of Record online: 05 January 2022 LINK “We report the…
Middle Ordovician astrochronology decouples asteroid breakup from glacially-induced biotic radiationsOPEN ACCESS
Jan Audun Rasmussen, Nicolas Thibault & Christian Mac Ørum Rasmussen Nature Communications, Volume 12, Article number: 6430 (2021) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meso-Cenozoic evidence suggests links between changes in the expression of orbital changes…
Asteroid break-ups and meteorite delivery to Earth the past 500 million yearsOPEN ACCESS
Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Information “The meteoritic material falling on Earth is believed to derive from large break-up or cratering events in…
Unique achondrite Northwest Africa 11042: Exploring the melting and breakup of the L chondrite parent bodyOPEN ACCESS
Zoltán Váci, Carl B. Agee, Munir Humayun, Karen Ziegler, Yemane Asmerom, Victor Polyak, Henner Busemann, Daniela Krietsch, Matthew Heizler, Matthew E. Sanborn, Qing‐Zhu Yin Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 2 March 2020 LINK PDF…
The Late Ordovician (Sandbian) Glasford structure: A marine‐target impact crater with a possible connection to the Ordovician meteorite event
Charles C. Monson, Dustin Sweet, Branimir Segvic, Giovanni Zanoni, Kyle Balling, Jacalyn M. Wittmer, G. Robert Ganis, Guo Cheng Meteoritics & Planetary Science First Published: 15 October 2019 LINK “The Glasford structure in Illinois (USA)…
From the mid‐Ordovician into the Late Silurian: Changes in the micrometeorite flux after the L chondrite parent breakup
Ellinor Martin, Birger Schmitz, Hans‐Peter Schönlaub LINK Meteorit Planet Sci. . doi:10.1111/maps.13174 “We present the first reconstruction of the micrometeorite flux to Earth in the Silurian Period. We searched 321 kg of condensed, marine limestone…
The Composition of the Flux of Micrometeorites after the L-Chondrite Parent Body Breakup ~470 Ma Ago: ≤1% H Chondritic, ≥99% L Chondritic
P. R. Heck, B. Schmitz, S. S. Rout, T. Tenner, K. Villalon, A. Cronholm, F. Terfelt, N. T. Kita 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1191 PDF
