Meteorites and planet formation

RH Jones - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Meteorites are a remarkable resource. They capture the imagination of people worldwide
with their spectacular entry through Earth's atmosphere as fireballs, and their exotic …

Water circulation in Ryugu asteroid affected the distribution of nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in returned sample

T Yokoyama, M Wadhwa, T Iizuka, V Rai, I Gautam… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Studies of material returned from Cb asteroid Ryugu have revealed considerable
mineralogical and chemical heterogeneity, stemming primarily from brecciation and …

The Ni isotopic composition of Ryugu reveals a common accretion region for carbonaceous chondrites

F Spitzer, T Kleine, C Burkhardt, T Hopp… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The isotopic compositions of samples returned from Cb-type asteroid Ryugu and Ivuna-type
(CI) chondrites are distinct from other carbonaceous chondrites, which has led to the …

Tarda and Tagish Lake: Samples from the same outer Solar System asteroid and implications for D-and P-type asteroids

DL Schrader, EA Cloutis, DM Applin, J Davidson… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
We report a comprehensive study of the ungrouped type 2 carbonaceous chondrite, Tarda,
which fell in Morocco in 2020. This meteorite exhibits substantial similarities to Tagish Lake …

Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history

A Bischoff, M Patzek, JA Barrat, J Berndt… - … & Planetary Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In 1889 the German poet and novelist Theodor Fontane wrote the popular literary ballad
“Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland.” The Squire von Ribbeck is described as a …

Recurrent planetesimal formation in an outer part of the early solar system

W Neumann, N Ma, A Bouvier, M Trieloff - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The formation of planets in our solar system encompassed various stages of accretion of
planetesimals that formed in the protoplanetary disk within the first few million years at …

Ureilite parent body evolution from the perspective of noble gases and oxygen in samples from the Almahata Sitta strewn field

MEI Riebe, AA Plant, MMM Meier, T Di Rocco… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2025 - Elsevier
Most ureilites are melt residues from the partially melted Ureilite Parent Body. The Ureilite
Parent Body was catastrophically disrupted at∼ 5 Ma after CAI while it was still hot and the …

Reassessing the proposed “CY chondrites”: Evidence for multiple meteorite types and parent bodies from Cr-Ti-HCN isotopes and bulk elemental compositions

DL Schrader, ZA Torrano, DI Foustoukos… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2025 - Elsevier
We report a coordinated bulk Cr-Ti-HCN isotopic and compositional study of six
carbonaceous chondrites from Antarctica that are often considered to be related and termed …

[HTML][HTML] Ureilite precursor formation from an isotopically and chemically heterogeneous, isolated protoplanetary disk reservoir

PM Kruttasch, K Ziegler, JC Storck, ND Greber… - Earth and Planetary …, 2025 - Elsevier
Isotopic and chemical compositions of meteorites are fundamental for reconstructing the
spatial evolution of the protoplanetary disk and for assessing the physical processes that …

[HTML][HTML] Symplectite formation in ultramafic achondrites by impact percolation of a sulfide melt

Z Váci, PM Kruttasch, MJ Krawczynski… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
The ungrouped dunitic achondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 12,217 contains symplectic
spinel-pyroxene veins that are mineralogically identical to symplectites in other ultramafic …