Documenting microbial populations within the University of Alberta Meteorite Curation Facility using 16S rRNA gene sequencing: Implications for the curation of astromaterialsOPEN ACCESS 

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Libby D. Tunney, Aaron B. Regberg, Christopher D. K. Herd, Richard E. Davis, Christian L. Castro MAPS, Version of Record online: 04 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Meteorites are easily contaminated at the…

Determination of olivine fayalite–forsterite composition in ordinary chondrites by X‐ray diffraction

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V. E. Di Cecco, B. C. Hyde, K. T. Tait, R. I. Nicklin MAPSFirst Published: 27 April 2022 LINK “Ordinary chondrites account for the majority of the described meteorites on Earth. To expand the toolbox…

Potassium isotopic evidence for a high-energy giant impact origin of the Moon

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Kun Wang, Stein B. Jacobsen Nature doi:10.1038/nature19341 Published online 12 September 2016 LINK “The Earth–Moon system has unique chemical and isotopic signatures compared with other planetary bodies1, 2, 3; any successful model for the origin…

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