{"id":42102,"date":"2026-07-15T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=42102"},"modified":"2026-07-15T20:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:29:46","slug":"meteor-over-new-york-city-brines-in-a-primitive-cm-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?p=42102","title":{"rendered":"Meteor over New York City: Brines in a primitive CM asteroid<span class=\"badge-status\" style=\"background:#787878\">OPEN ACCESS<\/span>&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peter Jenniskens*, Michael E. Zolensky, Austin Gordon, Jamie Gordon, Mike Hankey, Elizabeth A. Silber, Miro Ronac Giannone, Jangmi Han, Loan Le, Marc D. Fries, Karen Ziegler, Queenie H. S. Chan, Diptimayee Behera, Jonathan S. Watson, Mark A. Sephton, James Brakeley, Bianka Munday, Yoko Kebukawa, Zack Gainsforth, Masanori Suzuki, Gregory A. Brennecka, Jan H. Render, Henner Busemann, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Kees C. Welten, Kunihiko Nishiizumi, Marc W. Caffee, Takahiro Hiroi, Stefan Ruchti, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Jasmine Hertzog, Vincent Carr\u00e9, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Hannah L. McLain, Angel Mojarro, Jos\u00e9 Aponte, Denise Buckner, Nanako O. Ogawa, Yoshinori Takano, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Sonia M. Tikoo, Ji-In Jung, Eva M. Riveros, Jon M. Friedrich, Denton S. Ebel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Science Advances<br>15 Jul 2026<br>Vol 12, Issue 29<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aea2105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>LINK (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1126\/sciadv.aea2105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>PDF (OPEN ACCESS)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify-text\">&#8220;The CI (Ivuna-type) carbonaceous material returned from asteroids Ryugu and Bennu contain mobilized sodium from the evaporation or freezing of liquid water into brines, shedding light on the internal structure of ice-rich CI-type worlds and the formation of prebiotic organic compounds. The formation of brines has not been demonstrated in CM (Mighei-type) carbonaceous chondrites, which also supplied organic matter to the early Earth. Here, we announce the fall of a primitive meteorite from a daytime fireball over the New York metropolitan area in July 2024. It is a CM2 breccia that contains unique CM1 clasts rich in water and sodium. The meteorite contains abundant amino acids and other products of organic chemistry in brines that reveal subsurface processes on CM-type asteroid parent bodies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Jenniskens*, Michael E. Zolensky, Austin Gordon, Jamie Gordon, Mike Hankey, Elizabeth A. Silber, Miro Ronac Giannone, Jangmi Han, Loan Le, Marc D. Fries, Karen Ziegler, Queenie H. S. Chan, Diptimayee Behera, Jonathan S. Watson,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,7269,8,47],"tags":[3273,105,2990,7268,1832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102"}],"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=42102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42106,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42102\/revisions\/42106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}