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 …

[HTML][HTML] The origin and early evolution of life on Earth

J Oró, SL Miller, A Lazcano - Annual Review of Earth and …, 1990 - adsabs.harvard.edu
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Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System

T Hopp, N Dauphas, Y Abe, J Aléon… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Little is known about the origin of the spectral diversity of asteroids and what it says about
conditions in the protoplanetary disk. Here, we show that samples returned from Cb-type …

Bifurcation of planetary building blocks during Solar System formation

T Lichtenberg, J Dra̧żkowska, M Schönbächler… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Geochemical and astronomical evidence demonstrates that planet formation occurred in two
spatially and temporally separated reservoirs. The origin of this dichotomy is unknown. We …

Degassing of early-formed planetesimals restricted water delivery to Earth

ME Newcombe, SG Nielsen, LD Peterson, J Wang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The timing of delivery and the types of body that contributed volatiles to the terrestrial planets
remain highly debated,. For example, it is unknown if differentiated bodies, such as that …

A unified chronology of dust formation in the early solar system

M Piralla, J Villeneuve, N Schnuriger, DV Bekaert… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
The chronology of dust formation in the early solar system remains controversial.
Chondrules are the most abundant high-temperature objects formed during the evolution of …

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 …

Origin of isotopic diversity among carbonaceous chondrites

JL Hellmann, JM Schneider, E Wölfer… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbonaceous chondrites are some of the most primitive meteorites and derive from
planetesimals that formed a few million years after the beginning of the solar system. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Linking asteroids and meteorites to the primordial planetesimal population

RC Greenwood, TH Burbine, IA Franchi - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2020 - Elsevier
Meteorites provide a unique insight into early Solar System processes. However, to fully
interpret this record requires that these meteorites are related back to their source asteroids …

Chondrules reveal large-scale outward transport of inner Solar System materials in the protoplanetary disk

CD Williams, ME Sanborn, C Defouilloy, QZ Yin… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Dynamic models of the protoplanetary disk indicate there should be large-scale material
transport in and out of the inner Solar System, but direct evidence for such transport is …