A unique CO-like micrometeorite hosting an exotic Al-Cu-Fe-bearing assemblage – close affinities with the Khatyrka meteorite

1Suttle, M.D.,2Twegar, K.,3Nava, J.,3Spiess, R.,4Spratt, J.,1,5Campanale, F.,1 Folco, L.
Scientific Reports 9, 12426 Link to Article [DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-48937-0]
1Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, 56126, Italy
2Department of Chemistry, Istanbul Technological University, Istanbul, 34467, Turkey
3Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Via Gradenigo 6, Padova, 35131, Italy
4Department of Earth Science, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
5Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa, 56127, Italy

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Aluminum-26 chronology of dust coagulation and early solar system evolution

1Liu, M.-C.,2,3Han, J.,4Brearley, A.J.,1Hertwig, A.T.
Science Advances 5, eaaw3350 Link to Article [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw3350]
1Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
2Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, TX 77058, United States
3NASA Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, United States
4Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, MSC03-2040, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States

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Element Abundances: A New Diagnostic for the Solar Wind

1J. Martin Laming,2Angelos Vourlidas,3Clarence Korendyke,3Damien Chua,4Steven R. Cranmer,1Yuan-Kuen Ko,5Natsuha Kuroda,2Elena Provornikova,6John C. Raymond,2Nour-Eddine Raouafi
The Astrophysical Journal 879, 124 Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab23f1]
1Space Science Division, Code 7684, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
2Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel. MD 20723, USA
3Space Science Division, Code 7686, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
4Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
5University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO 80307, USA, and Space Science Division, Code 7684, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC 20375, USA
6Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
7NRL/NRC Research Associate, Space Science Division, Code 7684, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA
8Space Science Division, Code 7685, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA

We examine the different element abundances exhibited by the closed loop solar corona and the slow speed solar wind. Both are subject to the first ionization potential (FIP) effect, the enhancement in coronal abundance of elements with FIP below 10 eV (e.g., Mg, Si, Fe) with respect to high-FIP elements (e.g., O, Ne, Ar), but with subtle differences. Intermediate elements, S, P, and C, with FIP just above 10 eV, behave as high-FIP elements in closed loops, but are fractionated more like low-FIP elements in the solar wind. On the basis of FIP fractionation by the ponderomotive force in the chromosphere, we discuss fractionation scenarios where this difference might originate. Fractionation low in the chromosphere where hydrogen is neutral enhances the S, P, and C abundances. This arises with nonresonant waves, which are ubiquitous in open field regions, and is also stronger with torsional Alfvén waves, as opposed to shear (i.e., planar) waves. We discuss the bearing these findings have on models of interchange reconnection as the source of the slow speed solar wind. The outflowing solar wind must ultimately be a mixture of the plasma in the originally open and closed fields, and the proportions and degree of mixing should depend on details of the reconnection process. We also describe novel diagnostics in ultraviolet and extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy now available with these new insights, with the prospect of investigating slow speed solar wind origins and the contribution of interchange reconnection by remote sensing.

Boom boom pow: Shock-facilitated aqueous alteration and evidence for two shock events in the Martian nakhlite meteorites

1,2,3Daly, L.,1Lee, M.R.,4Piazolo, S.,1Griffin, S.,5Bazargan, M.,1,6Campanale, F.,1 Chung, P.,1Cohen, B.E.,1Pickersgill, A.E.,1Hallis, L.J.,7Trimby, P.W.,8Baumgartner, R.,2 Forman, L.V.,9,10Benedix, G.K.
Science Advances 5, eaaw5549 Link to Article [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw5549]
1School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
2Space Science and Technology Centre, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
3Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
4School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
5Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
6Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa ,via Santa Maria 53, Pisa, 56126, Italy
7Oxford Instruments Nanoanalysis, High Wycombe, HP12 3SE, United Kingdom
8Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
9Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Western Australia Museum, Locked Bag 49, Welshpool, WA 6986, Australia
10Planetary Science Institute, Suite 106, 1700 East Fort Lowell, Tucson, United States

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The Late Ordovician (Sandbian) Glasford structure: A marine‐target impact crater with a possible connection to the Ordovician meteorite event

1,2Charles C. Monson,3Dustin Sweet,3Branimir Segvic,3Giovanni Zanoni,2Kyle Balling,2,4Jacalyn M. Wittmer,5G. Robert Ganis,6Guo Cheng
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Press) Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13401]
1Illinois State Geological Survey, University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign, 615 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois
61820, USA
2Department or Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1301 West Green Street, Urbana, lllinois 61801, USA
3Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, 1200 Memorial Circle, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
4Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, New York
14454, USA
5Consulting Geologist, 749 Burlwood Drive, Southcrn Pincs. North Carolina 28387, USA
6Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 115 Trowbridge Hall, Jowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons

The Glasford structure in Illinois (USA) was recognized as a buried impact craterin the early 1960s but has never been reassessed in light of recent advances in planetaryscience. Here, we document shatter cones and previously unknown quartz microdeformationfeatures that support an impact origin for the Glasford structure. We identify the 4 kmwide structure as a complex buried impact crater and describe syn- and postimpact depositsfrom its annular trough. We have informally designated these deposits as the KingstonMines unit (KM). The fossils and sedimentology of the KM indicate a marine depositionalsetting. The various intervals within the KM constitute a succession of breccia, carbonate,sandstone, and shale similar to marine sedimentary successions preserved in other craters.Graptolite specimens retrieved from the KM place the time of deposition at approximately4552 Ma (Late Ordovician, Sandbian). This age determination suggests a possible linkbetween the Glasford impact and the Ordovician meteorite shower, an increase in the rateof terrestrial meteorite impacts attributed to the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body inthe main asteroid belt.