Discovery of terrestrial rubinite, Ca3Ti3+2Si3O12, super-reduced garnet from the Hatrurim Complex, Israel

1Galuskin, Evgeny V.,1Galuskina, Irina O.,3Vapnik, Yevgeny,4Zieliński, Grzegorz
Mineralogical Magazine (in Press) Open Access Link to Article [DOI 10.1180/mgm.2025.3]
1Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, Będzińska 60, Sosnowiec, 41-200, Poland
2Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Silesia, 75. Pułku Piechoty 1, Chorzów, 41-500, Poland
3Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
4Polish Geological Institute, National Research Institute, Rakowiecka 4, Warsaw, 00-975, Poland

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A Machine Learning Approach for the Autonomous Identification of Hardness in Extraterrestrial Rocks from Digital Images

1,2Liu, Shuyun,1,2Zhao, Haifeng,1Yuan, Zihao,1,2Xiao, Liping,1,2Shen, Chengcheng,1,2Wan, Xue,3,4Tang, Xuhai,2Zhang, Lu
Aerospace 12, 26 Open Access Link to Article [DOI 10.3390/aerospace12010026]
1University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China
2Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China
3School of Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
4Wuhan University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 518057, China

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Metal differentiation on asteroids recorded in Zn and Fe isotopic signatures of ureilites

1,,3Chernonozhkin S.M.,4,5Pittarello L.,6Hublet G.,7Weyer S.,7Horn I.,8Claeys P.,6Debaille V.,1Vanhaecke F.,8Goderis S.
Geochemical Research Letters 33, 38-43 Open Access Link to Article [DOI 10.7185/geochemlet.2501]
1Atomic & Mass Spectrometry – A&MS Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Ghent University, Campus Sterre, Krijgslaan, 281 – S12, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium
2Research Group – Isotope Ratio Analysis, Montanuniversität Leoben, Franz Josef-Straße 18, Leoben, 8700, Austria
3Geological Survey of Finland, P.O. Box 96, Espoo, 02151, Finland
4Naturhistorisches Museum Wien – NHMW, Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Burgring 7, Vienna, 1010, Austria
5University of Vienna, Department of Lithospheric Research, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, Vienna, 1090, Austria
6Laboratoire G-Time, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 50, Av. F.D. Roosevelt CP 160/02, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium
7Institute of Earth System Sciences, Section Mineralogy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstr. 3, Hannover, 30167, Germany
8Archaeology, Environmental Changes, and Geo-Chemistry (AMGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, 1050, Belgium

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A Method to Assess the Applicability and Accuracy of the Modified Gaussian Model (MGM) on the Rock Samples’ Spectral Interpretation

1,2,3Gao, Fang,1,2Liu, Bin,1,2Zhou, Qin,1,2Li, Chun-Lai
Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics 25, 015005 Link to Article [DOI
10.1088/1674-4527/ad95d8]
1Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
2National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China
3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

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Timescales of Solar System Formation Based on Al-Ti Isotope Correlation by Supernova Ejecta

1Iizuka, Tsuyoshi,2,3Hibiya, Yuki,1Yoshihara, Satoshi,4Hayakawa, Takehito
Astrophysical Journal Letters 979, L29 Open Access Link to Article [DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ada554]
1Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
2Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
3Submarine Resources Research Center, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan
4Kansai Institute for Photon Science, National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Umemidai 8-1-7, Kizugawa, Kyoto, 619-0215, Japan

The radioactive decay of short-lived 26Al-26Mg has been used to estimate the timescales over which 26Al was produced in a nearby star and the protosolar disk evolved. The chronology commonly assumes that 26Al was uniformly distributed in the protosolar disk; however, this assumption is challenged by the discordance between the timescales defined by the Al-Mg and assumption-free Pb-Pb chronometers. We find that the 26Al heterogeneity is correlated with the nucleosynthetic stable Ti isotope variation, which can be ascribed to the nonuniform distribution of ejecta from a core-collapse supernova in the disk. We use the Al-Ti isotope correlation to calibrate variable 26Al abundances in Al-Mg dating of early solar system processes. The calibrated Al-Mg chronometer indicates a ≥1 Myr gap between parent body accretion ages of carbonaceous and noncarbonaceous chondrites. We further use the Al-Ti isotope correlation to constrain the timing and location of the supernova explosion, indicating that the explosion occurred at 20-30 pc from the protosolar cloud, 0.94 +0.25/-0.21 Myr before the formation of the oldest solar system solids. Our results imply that the Sun was born in association with a ∼25 Mʘ star.

Collection of Antarctic micrometeorites stored in the surface snow near the Dome Fuji Station

1Takaaki Noguchi,2,3Takahito Tominaga,2,4Minako Takase,5Akira Yamaguchi,5Naoya Imae
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Press) Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14324]
1Division of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
3Kai Industries Co. Ltd., Gifu, Japan
4Fukuoka City Science Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
5National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons

Over a period of 16 years, we collected Antarctic micrometeorites (AMMs) preserved in 1-t snow samples from the surface to a depth of ~10–15 cm near Dome Fuji Station, Antarctica. A total of 1025 AMMs were identified: 843 unmelted AMMs, 51 scoriaceous ones, and 131 cosmic spherules. Their average sizes were 40, 64, and 40 μm, respectively. The accretion rate of AMMs was inferred to be (3.3 ± 1.8) × 103 t year−1, based on the snow accumulation rate near Dome Fuji Station. We compared the Dome Fuji collection (DFC) with our previous Tottuki #5 collection (T5C) recovered from blue ice in 2000. Regardless of the collection methods, the full range size distributions of AMMs were well fitted by lognormal functions. In 2019 and 2020, we applied a freeze-drying (FD) system to collect AMMs. We identified 21 AMMs from 17 kg of surface snow. Both GEMS (glass with embedded metal and sulfide)-rich chondritic porous (CP) AMMs and hydrated fine-grained (H f-g) AMMs were identified. No detectable mineralogical differences were observed between a CP AMM from the DFC-FD and one from the DFC, suggesting that ~6 h of exposure to cold water (<8.7°C) did not affect the mineralogy of CP AMMs.

Re-evaluation of the spherules proposed origin recovered from the Pacific Ocean site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) bolide

1,2N.G. Rudraswami, 1,2V.P. Singh, 1M. Pandey
Chemical Geology 677, 122628 Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122628]
1National Institute of Oceanography (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), Dona Paula, Goa 403004, India
2Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India

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An investigation of the relationship between morphology and chemistry of the D-type spherules from the recovery expedition of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 bolide: Implications for origins

1,3Hyung, Eugenia,2,3Cherston, Juliana,1,3Jacobsen, Stein B.,2,3Loeb, Abraham Avi
Chemical Geology 677, 122627 Link to Article [DOI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122627]
1Dept. of Earth and Planet. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, 02138, MA, United States
2Dept. of Astronomy, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, 02138, MA, United States
3Interstellar Expedition of the Galileo Project, Cambridge, 02138, MA, United States

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Creation of an Fe3P Schreibersite Density Functional Tight Binding Model for Astrobiological Simulations

1,2Dettori, Riccardo1,2Goldman, Nir
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 129 583-595 Link to Article [DOI 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c05881]
1Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, 94550, CA, United States
2Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, CA, Monserrato, 09042, Italy
3Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 95616, CA, United States

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