Earth's water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites

L Piani, Y Marrocchi, T Rigaudier, LG Vacher… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The origin of Earth's water remains unknown. Enstatite chondrite (EC) meteorites have
similar isotopic composition to terrestrial rocks and thus may be representative of the …

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 …

Chondrule properties and formation conditions

Y Marrocchi, RH Jones, SS Russell, DC Hezel… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Chondrules are iconic sub-millimeter spheroids representing the most abundant high-
temperature dust formed during the evolution of the circumsolar disk. Chondrules have been …

A framework for the origin and deep cycles of volatiles in rocky exoplanets

R Dasgupta, D Pathak… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Since the first discovery of planets in another solar system of our galaxy in the early 90s and
the discovery of 51 Pegassi b, a Jovian-type planet around a Sun-like star in 1995 (Mayor …

Formation of CV chondrules by recycling of amoeboid olivine aggregate-like precursors

Y Marrocchi, R Euverte, J Villeneuve… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
We have studied porphyritic olivine-rich chondrules of the carbonaceous chondrite Kaba
(CV3) by combined high-resolution X-ray map**, quantitative electron microprobe …

Chromium isotopic insights into the origin of chondrite parent bodies and the early terrestrial volatile depletion

K Zhu, F Moynier, M Schiller, CMOD Alexander… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Chondrites are meteorites from undifferentiated parent bodies that provide fundamental
information about early Solar System evolution and planet formation. The element Cr is …

The Fe/S ratio of pyrrhotite group sulfides in chondrites: An indicator of oxidation and implications for return samples from asteroids Ryugu and Bennu

DL Schrader, J Davidson, TJ McCoy, TJ Zega… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Determining compositional trends among individual minerals is key to understanding the
thermodynamic conditions under which they formed and altered, and is also essential to …

Oxygen isotopic diversity of chondrule precursors and the nebular origin of chondrules

Y Marrocchi, J Villeneuve, V Batanova, L Piani… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
FeO-poor (type I) porphyritic chondrules formed by incomplete melting of solid dust
precursors via a yet-elusive mechanism. Two settings are generally considered for their …

Oxygen fugacity and melt composition controls on nitrogen solubility in silicate melts

J Boulliung, E Füri, C Dalou, L Tissandier… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of N solubility in silicate melts is key for understanding the origin of
terrestrial N and the distribution and exchanges of N between the atmosphere, the silicate …

Vapor-Melt Exchange--Constraints on Chondrite Formation Conditions and Processes

DS Ebel, CMOD Alexander, G Libourel - arxiv preprint arxiv:2306.12664, 2023 - arxiv.org
The bulk volatile contents of chondritic meteorites provide clues to their origins. Matrix and
chondrules carry differing abundances of moderately volatile elements, with chondrules …