Nitrogen in the Orgueil meteorite: Abundant ammonium among other reservoirs of variable isotopic compositionsOPEN ACCESS
Lucie Laize-Générat, Lison Soussaintjean, Olivier Poch, Lydie Bonal, , Joël Savarino , Nicolas Caillon , Patrick Ginot , Anthony Vella , Alexis Lamothe, Rhabira Elazzouzi, Laurène Flandinet, Lionel Vacher, Matthieu Gounelle, Martin Bizzaro, Pierre Beck,…
Nitrogen inventory of iron meteorite parent bodies constrained by nitrogen partitioning between Fe-rich solid and liquid alloys
Debjeet Pathak, Rajdeep Dasgupta Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, In Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 6 March 2024 LINK “Delivery of nitrogen (N), one of the most important elements for life, to Earth thought to have…
High-spatial resolution functional chemistry of nitrogen compounds in the observed UK meteorite fall WinchcombeOPEN ACCESS
Christian Vollmer, Demie Kepaptsoglou, Jan Leitner, Aleksander B. Mosberg, Khalil El Hajraoui, Ashley J. King, Charlotte L. Bays, Paul F. Schofield, Tohru Araki & Quentin M. Ramasse LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Organic matter in…
Chondrules from the ordinary chondrite Itawa Bhopji (L3-5): Noble gases and nitrogen
Ramakant R. Mahajan Planetary and Space ScienceIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 11 January 2024 LINK “Noble gases and nitrogen compositions are investigated in chondrules of Itawa Bhopji (L3-5) chondrite. Single chondrule and bunch of…
Influx of nitrogen-rich material from the outer Solar System indicated by iron nitride in Ryugu samplesOPEN ACCESS
Toru Matsumoto, Takaaki Noguchi, Akira Miyake, Yohei Igami, Mitsutaka Haruta, Yusuke Seto, Masaaki Miyahara, Naotaka Tomioka, Hikaru Saito, Satoshi Hata, Dennis Harries, Aki Takigawa, Yusuke Nakauchi, Shogo Tachibana, Tomoki Nakamura, Megumi Matsumoto, Hope A. Ishii,…
The noble gas and nitrogen relationship between Ryugu and carbonaceous chondritesOPEN ACCESS
M.W. Broadley, D.J. Byrne, E. Füri, L. Zimmermann, B. Marty, R. Okazaki, T. Yada, F. Kitajima, S. Tachibana, K. Yogata, K. Sakamoto, H. Yurimoto, T. Nakamura, T. Noguchi, H. Naraoka, H. Yabuta, S. Watanabe, Y….
Origin of nitrogen on Mars: First in situ N isotope analyses of martian meteorites
C. Deligny, E. Füri, E. Deloule, A.H. Peslier, F. Faure, Y. Marrocchi Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 23 January 2023 LINK “Martian meteorites are key for assessing the isotopic characteristics of nitrogen in different martian…
Origin of the superchondritic carbon/nitrogen ratio of the bulk silicate Earth − an outlook from iron meteorites
Damanveer S. Grewal, Paul D. Asimow Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 20 January 2023 LINK “Disagreement regarding the origin of the bulk silicate Earth’s (BSE) superchondritic carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio is due, in part, to the…
The Lunar Breccia Dhofar 1442: Noble Gases, Nitrogen, and Carbon Released by Stepwise Combustion and CrushingOPEN ACCESS
E. V. Korochantseva, A. B. Verchovsky & A. V. Korochantsev Geochemistry International, Volume 60, pages 1192–1206Published: 08 December 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Stepwise crushing and combustion methods were applied to study the KREEP-rich…
Origin of life-forming volatile elements in the inner Solar System
Michael W. Broadley, David V. Bekaert, Laurette Piani, Evelyn Füri & Bernard Marty NatureReview, Published: 09 November 2022 LINK “Volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are essential ingredients to build habitable worlds…
Noble gases and nitrogen in samples of asteroid Ryugu record its volatile sources and recent surface evolutionOPEN ACCESS
Ryuji Okazaki, Bernard Marty, Henner Busemann, Ko Hashizume, Jamie D. Gilmour, Alex Meshik, Toru Yada, Fumio Kitajima, Michael W. Broadley […] Yuichi Tsuda Science Advances20 Oct 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Materials (PDF)…
Limited nitrogen isotopic fractionation during core-mantle differentiation in rocky protoplanets and planets
Damanveer S. Grewal, Tao Sun, Sanath Aithala, Taylor Hough, Rajdeep Dasgupta, Laurence Y. Yeung, Edwin Schauble Geochimica et Cosmochimica ActaAvailable online 19 October 2022 LINK “15N/14N ratios of meteorites are a powerful tool for tracing…
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…
Indigenous noble gases in the Moon’s interiorOPEN ACCESS
Patrizia Will, Henner Busemann, My E. I. Riebe and Colin Maden Science Advances10 Aug 2022Vol 8, Issue 32 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The origin of volatiles in the Moon’s interior is debated. Scenarios range…
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:…
A very early origin of isotopically distinct nitrogen in inner Solar System protoplanetsOPEN ACCESS
Damanveer S. Grewal, Rajdeep Dasgupta & Bernard Marty Nature Astronomy (2021) LINK Preprint (differs from the journal version) PDF (OPEN ACCESS)Journal PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Understanding the origin of life-essential volatiles such as nitrogen (N) in…
Isotopic Composition of Noble Gases, Nitrogen, and Carbon in the Ozerki New L Chondrite
E. V. Korochantseva, A. B. Verchovsky, A. I. Buikin, K. A. Lorents & A. V. Korochantsev Geochemistry International, Volume 58, pages 1239–1256(2020) LINK “The isotopic composition of noble gases, nitrogen, and carbon in two samples…
Noble gases and nitrogen in Raghunathpura (IIAB) and Nyaung (IIIAB) iron meteorites
S. V. S. Murty, S. Ghosh, Dwijesh Ray Meteoritics & Planetary Science First published: 23 September 2018 LINK “Noble gases and nitrogen were measured in two adjacent samples each from the Raghunathpura (IIAB) and the…
Origin and significance of cosmogenic signatures in vesicles of lunar basalt 15016OPEN ACCESS
Bekaert, D. V., Avice, G. and Marty, B. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. doi: 10.1111/maps.13069 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Lunar basalt 15016 (~3.3 Ga) is among the most vesicular (50% by volume) basalts recovered…
Revised Models of Interstellar Nitrogen Isotopic Fractionation
E. S. Wirström S. B. Charnley Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stx3030, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3030 Published: 23 November 2017 LINK “Nitrogen-bearing molecules in cold molecular clouds exhibit a range of isotopic fractionation ratios and these…
Origin of isotopically light nitrogen in meteorites
A. B. Verchovsky Geochemistry International November 2017, Volume 55, Issue 11, pp 957–970 Original Russian Text © A.B. Verchovsky, 2017, published in Geokhimiya, 2017, No. 11, pp. 969–983 LINK “Bulk meteorite samples of various chemical…
Nitrogen and Carbonaceous Isotopic Variations in Several Carbonaceous Chondrites — A Hunt for the Carrier Phases
M. Bose, T. J. Zega, K. Domanik 47th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2016), Abstract #1671 PDF
The path of reduced nitrogen toward early earth: the cosmic trail and its solar shortcuts
Sandra Pizzarello and Maitrayee Bose The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 814, Number 2 LINK “Large isotopic anomalies are found in meteoritic insoluble organic materials (IOMs) and, for nitrogen, show 15N-excesses up to ${\delta }^{15}$N ~ 5000‰….
Indigenous nitrogen in the Moon: Constraints from coupled nitrogen–noble gas analyses of mare basalts
Evelyn Füri, Peter H. Barry, Lawrence A. Taylor, Bernard Marty Earth and Planetary Science Letters Volume 431, 1 December 2015, Pages 195–205 LINK
Nitrogen isotope variations in the Solar System
Evelyn Füri, Bernard Marty Nature Geoscience (2015) review doi:10.1038/ngeo2451 Published online 15 June 2015 LINK
Lunar meteorite Yamato-983885: Noble gases, nitrogen and cosmic ray exposure history
Ramakant R. Mahajan Planetary and Space Science In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 30 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.05.003 LINK
Synthesis of refractory organic matter in the ionized gas phase of the solar nebula
Maïa Kuga, Bernard Marty, Yves Marrocchi, and Laurent Tissandier PNAS2015 ; published ahead of print May 26, 2015, doi:10.1073/pnas.1502796112 PDF (full text) abstract
Evidence for an early nitrogen isotopic evolution in the solar nebula from volatile analyses of a CAI from the CV3 chondrite NWA 8616
Evelyn Füri, Marc Chaussidon, Bernard Marty Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, available online 20 January 2015 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2015.01.004 LINK
Reactive ammonia in the solar protoplanetary disk and the origin of Earth’s nitrogen
Dennis Harries,Peter Hoppe, Falko Langenhorst Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2339 LINK Supplementary Information (PDF) Yamato 793321
The Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Meteoritic HCN
Sandra Pizzarello The Astrophysical Journal Letters ApJ 796 L25. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/796/2/L25 published 17 November 2014. LINK