An anorthositic meteorite supporting an ancient magma ocean on Vesta
Shijie Li, Dongliang Zhang, Qiao Shu, Huiming Bao, Xiaobin Cao, Jia Liu, Liping Qin, Yan Fan, Shenghua Zhou, Dehan Shen & Mingbao Li Nature Astronomy LINK “The widespread occurrence of ferroan anorthosites and other magmatic…
Calcium isotope constraints on the origin of eucrites and diogenites: The role of magma ocean and magmatism
Yongli Xue, Jinting Kang, Shiyong Liao, Runlian Pang, Huimin Yu, Zifu Zhao, Zhaofeng Zhang, Bingkui Miao, Weibiao Hsu, Fang Huang Earth and Planetary Science LettersVolume 613, 1 July 2023, 118171 LINK “Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorites represent…
Birth and decline of magma oceans in planetesimals. Part 2: Structure and thermal history of early accreted small planetary bodies
Cyril Sturtz, Angela Limare, Stephen Tait, Édouard Kaminski JGR Planets, First Published: 30 November 2022 LINK “Key Points We model the thermal and structural evolution of radiogenic heated early accreted planetesimals that experienced an internal…
Birth and decline of magma oceans in planetesimals. Part 1: Experimental study of erosion and deposition of particles in an internally heated convecting fluid
Cyril Sturtz, Angela Limare, Stephen Tait, Édouard Kaminski JGR PlanetsFirst Published: 18 November 2022 LINK “Key Points We study experimentally the transient behavior of a convective fluid bearing particles that can float or sediment to…
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…
The Fate of Nitrogen during Parent Body Partial Melting and Accretion of the Inner Solar System Bodies at Reducing Conditions
Rajdeep Dasgupta, Emily Falksen, Aindrila Pal, Chenguang Sun Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 23 September 2022 LINK “Evolution of nitrogen (N), a life-essential volatile element, in highly reduced magmatic systems is a key for the…
Structure of differentiated planetesimals: A chondritic fridge on top of a magma ocean
Cyril Sturtz, Angela Limare, Marc Chaussidon, Édouard Kaminski IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 28 May 2022 LINK “Highlights • We study the formation and the thermal evolution of planetesimals that accreted undifferentiated material during…
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:…
Formation of Venus, Earth and Mars: Constrained by Isotopes
Helmut Lammer, Ramon Brasser, Anders Johansen, Manuel Scherf & Martin Leitzinger Space Science ReviewsPublished: 22 December 2020 LINKUpdate (12 February 2021); PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Here we discuss the current state of knowledge of terrestrial planet…
Volatile element chemistry during accretion of the earth
Bruce Fegley Jr, Katharina Lodders, Nathan S.Jacobson Geochemistry Review LINK “We review some issues relevant to volatile element chemistry during accretion of the Earth with an emphasis on historical development of ideas during the past…
Tracking the volatile and magmatic history of Vesta from chromium stable isotope variations in eucrite and diogenite meteorites
Ke Zhu, Paolo A. Sossi, Julien Siebert, Frédéric Moynier Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 August 2019 LINK “Although Solar System bodies exhibit large variations in their volatile element abundances,…
Evidence of chemical heterogeneity within lunar anorthosite parental magmasOPEN ACCESS
John F. Pernet-Fisher, Etienne Deloule, Katherine H. Joy Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Available online 22 April 2019 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Lunar anorthosites are known for displaying a limited range of plagioclase An content (∼An 94…
Magma ascent in planetesimals: Control by grain size
Tim Lichtenberg, Tobias Keller, Richard F.Katz, Gregor J. Golabek, Taras V. Gerya Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 507, 1 February 2019, Pages 154-165 LINK “Highlights • Planetesimal melt transport regimes from coupled models of…
Crystallization and cooling conditions for the diogenite formation in the turbulent magma ocean of the asteroid 4 VestaOPEN ACCESS
Yusuke Kawabata, Hiroko Nagahara PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The asteroid 4 Vesta has been completely differentiated to core and mantle despite its small size, of which surface materials are howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites that we know the…
Constraints on core formation in Vesta from metal–silicate partitioning of siderophile elements
E.S. Steenstra, J.S. Knibbe, N. Rai, W. van Westrenen Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 14 January 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.002 LINK “It is now widely accepted that the asteroid 4–Vesta has an…
