{"id":41634,"date":"2026-05-08T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=41634"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:10:06","slug":"analysis-of-hydrogen-carbon-oxygen-sulfur-chlorine-and-mercury-in-samples-returned-from-asteroid-101955-bennu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=41634","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, sulfur, chlorine, and mercury in samples returned from asteroid (101955) Bennu<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Shogo Tachibana, Hisashi Homma, Shintaro Komatani, Tomoaki Watanabe, Kazuko Motomura, Yoshinobu Hosoi, Satoru Tanaka, Mai Sakaguchi, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Jessica J. Barnes, Ann N. Nguyen, Harold. C. Connolly Jr., Dante S. Lauretta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MAPS, Version of Record online: 07 May 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/maps.70158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/maps.70158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered pristine regolith samples from the near-Earth carbonaceous asteroid (101955) Bennu, enabling direct assessment of primitive asteroid material free from terrestrial alteration. We report comprehensive analyses of H, C, O, S, Cl, and Hg in Bennu samples using X-ray fluorescence (XRF), thermogravimetric analysis coupled with mass spectrometry (TG-MS), combination analyses of pyrolysis and combustion (EMIA-Step), and direct Hg measurements. Quantification of O, Si, S, Cl, and Ge by XRF is reported for Bennu samples for the first time. TG-MS reveals ~15 mass% total mass loss, with H2O and CO2 release patterns attributed to phyllosilicates, carbonates, and organic matter. Bennu samples contain substantially higher interlayer H2O than those from asteroid Ryugu, consistent with subsurface deeper sampling by OSIRIS-REx. Total carbon abundance is ~4.1 mass%, dominated by organic carbon (~2.9 mass%), comparable to Ryugu samples. Mercury abundances (82\u2013141\u2009ng\u2009g\u22121) are far lower than those reported for CI chondrites, indicating pervasive terrestrial contamination in meteorite samples. We recommend a Hg abundance of 98\u2009\u00b1\u20092\u2009ng\u2009g\u22121 for Bennu samples and pristine CI-like material, demonstrating that returned asteroid samples provide the most reliable record of primitive carbonaceous matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Shogo Tachibana, Hisashi Homma, Shintaro Komatani, Tomoaki Watanabe, Kazuko Motomura, Yoshinobu Hosoi, Satoru Tanaka, Mai Sakaguchi, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Jessica J. Barnes, Ann N. Nguyen, Harold. C. Connolly Jr., Dante S. Lauretta MAPS, Version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,552,181,1184,64],"tags":[5719,587,192,1886,653,4899,317,2624,1000],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41635,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41634\/revisions\/41635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}