The search for chiral asymmetry as a potential biosignature in our solar system

DP Glavin, AS Burton, JE Elsila, JC Aponte… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The search for evidence of extraterrestrial life in our Solar System is currently guided by our
understanding of terrestrial biology and its associated biosignatures. The observed …

[HTML][HTML] Physical properties of the stone meteorites: Implications for the properties of their parent bodies

GJ Flynn, GJ Consolmagno, P Brown, RJ Macke - Geochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
The physical properties of the stone meteorites provide important clues to understanding the
formation and physical evolution of material in the Solar protoplanetary disk as well …

The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system

AJ King, L Daly, J Rowe, KH Joy, RC Greenwood… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Direct links between carbonaceous chondrites and their parent bodies in the solar system
are rare. The Winchcombe meteorite is the most accurately recorded carbonaceous …

Chelyabinsk airburst, damage assessment, meteorite recovery, and characterization

OP Popova, P Jenniskens, V Emel'yanenko… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The asteroid impact near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on 15 February 2013 was the
largest airburst on Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event, causing a natural disaster in an …

Thiophosphate photochemistry enables prebiotic access to sugars and terpenoid precursors

DJ Ritson, JD Sutherland - Nature chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past few years, evidence has accrued that demonstrates that terrestrial
photochemical reactions could have provided numerous (proto) biomolecules with …

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 …

FRIPON: a worldwide network to track incoming meteoroids

F Colas, B Zanda, S Bouley, S Jeanne… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Until recently, camera networks designed for monitoring fireballs worldwide were
not fully automated, implying that in case of a meteorite fall, the recovery campaign was …

The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk asteroidal impactor

J Borovička, P Spurný, P Brown, P Wiegert, P Kalenda… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Earth is continuously colliding with fragments of asteroids and comets of various sizes. The
largest encounter in historical times occurred over the Tunguska river in Siberia in 1908 …

Bennu's near-Earth lifetime of 1.75 million years inferred from craters on its boulders

RL Ballouz, KJ Walsh, OS Barnouin, DN DellaGiustina… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
An asteroid's history is determined in large part by its strength against collisions with other
objects,(impact strength). Laboratory experiments on centimetre-scale meteorites have been …

[HTML][HTML] The aqueous alteration of CM chondrites, a review

MD Suttle, AJ King, PF Schofield, H Bates… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
The CM chondrites are samples of primitive water-rich asteroids formed during the early
solar system. They record significant interaction between liquid water and silicate rock …