Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains of Types Y and Z: Their Molybdenum Isotopic Compositions and Stellar Origins

1,2,3Nan Liu,4,5Thomas Stephan,6,7Sergio Cristallo,8Roberto Gallino,4,5Patrick Boehnke,3Larry R. Nittler,3Conel M. O’D. Alexander,4,5,9Andrew M. Davis,4,5,10Reto Trappitsch,4,5,11Michael J. Pellin,12,13Iris Dillmann
The Astrophysical Journal 881, 28 Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2d27]
1Laboratory for Space Sciences and Physics Department, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
2McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
3Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA
4Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
5Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, Chicago, IL, USA
6INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d’Abruzzo, Teramo 64100, Italy
7INFN-Sezione di Perugia, Perugia 06123, Italy
8Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Torino 10125, Italy
9The Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
10Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
11Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA
12TRIUMF, 4004 Westbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 2A3, Canada
13Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2, Canada

We report Mo isotopic compositions of 37 presolar SiC grains of types Y (19) and Z (18), rare types commonly argued to have formed in lower-than-solar metallicity asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. Direct comparison of the Y and Z grain data with data for mainstream grains from AGB stars of close-to-solar metallicity demonstrates that the three types of grains have indistinguishable Mo isotopic compositions. We show that the Mo isotope data can be used to constrain the maximum stellar temperatures (T MAX) during thermal pulses in AGB stars. Comparison of FRUITY Torino AGB nucleosynthesis model calculations with the grain data for Mo isotopes points to an origin from low-mass (~1.5–3 M ) rather than intermediate-mass (>3–~9 M ) AGB stars. Because of the low efficiency of 22Ne(α, n)25Mg at the low T MAX values attained in low-mass AGB stars, model calculations cannot explain the large 30Si excesses of Z grains as arising from neutron capture, so these excesses remain a puzzle at the moment.

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
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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.

Presolar grains in primitive ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite Northwest Africa 5958

1Larry R. Nittler,2Rhonda M. STROUD, 1Conel M. O’D. ALEXANDER, 1,3Kaitlin HOWELL
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Press) Link to Article [doi: 10.1111/maps.13397]
1Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie lnstitution of Washington, Washington,District of Columbia 20015, USA
2U.S. Naval Research Laboralory, Codle 6366, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, District of Columbia 20375, USA
3Present address: School of Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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We report a correlated NanoSIMS-transmission electron microscopy study of theungrouped carbonaceous chondrite Northwest Africa (NWA) 5958. We identified 10presolar SiC grains, 2 likely presolar graphite grains, and 20 presolar silicate and/or oxidegrains in NWA 5958. We suggest a slight modification of the commonly used classificationsystem for presolar oxides and silicates that better reflects the grains’ likely stellar origins.The matrix-normalized presolar SiC abundance in NWA 5958 is 18þ1510ppm (2r) similar tothat seen in many classes of unmetamorphosed chondrites. In contrast, the matrix-normalized abundance of presolar O-rich phases (silicates and oxides) is 30:9þ17:813:1ppm (2r),much lower than seen in interplanetary dust particles and the least-altered CR, CO, andungrouped C chondrites, but close to that reported for CM chondrites. NanoSIMS mappingalso revealed an unusual13C-enriched (d13C100–200&) carbonaceous rim surrounding a1.4lm diameter phyllosilicate grain. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis oftwo presolar grains with a likely origin in asymptotic giant branch stars identified one asenstatite and one as Al-Mg spinel with minor Cr. The enstatite grain amorphized rapidlyunder the electron beam, suggesting partial hydration. TEM data of NWA 5958 matrixconfirm that it has experienced aqueous alteration and support the suggestion of Jacquetet al. (2016) that this meteorite has affinities to CM2 chondrites.

Shock‐thermal history of the Agoudal (IIAB) iron meteorite from microstructural studies

1D. Ray,1S. Ghosh,2H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane,3S. Das
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Prss) Link to Article [doi: 10.1111/maps.13399]
1Physical Research Laboralory, Ahrnedabad, Gujaral 380 009, lndia
2Facully of Sciences, GAIA Laboralory, Hassan 11 University Casablanca, llP 5366 Maarif, 20000, Casablanca, Morooco
3Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian lnsli_Lulc ofTcchnology’. Kharagpur 721302, lndia
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The Agoudal IIAB iron meteorite exhibits only kamacite grains (~6 mm across)without any taenite. The kamacite is homogeneously enriched with numerous rhabditeinclusions of different size, shape, and composition. In some kamacite domains, this appearsfrosty due to micron-scale rhabdite inclusions (~5 to 100lm) of moderate to high Nicontent (~26 to 40 wt%). In addition, all the kamacite grains in matrix are marked with aprominent linear crack formed during an atmospheric break-up event and subsequentlyoxidized. This feature, also defined by trails of lowest Ni-bearing (mean Ni: 23 wt%) mm-scale rhabdite plates (fractured and oxidized) could be a trace of a pre-existingc–ainterface. Agoudal experienced a very slow rate of primary cooling~4°CMa1estimatedfrom the binary plots of true rhabdite width against corresponding Ni wt% and thecomputed cooling rate curves after Randich and Goldstein (1978). Chemically, Agoudaliron (Ga: 54 ppm; Ge: 140 ppm; Ir: 0.03 ppm) resembles the Ainsworth iron, the coarsestoctahedrite of the IIAB group. Agoudal contains multiple sets of Neumann bands that areformed in space and time at different scales and densities due to multiple impacts withshock magnitude up to 130 kb. Signatures of recrystallization due to postshock lowtemperature mild reheating at about 400°C are also locally present.

An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body

1Schmitz, B.,2Farley, K.A.,3Goderis, S.,4,5Heck, P.R.,6Bergström, S.M.,1Boschi, S.,
7Claeys, P.,8Debaille, V.,9,10Dronov, A.,11van Ginneken, M.,12Harper, D.A.T.,1Iqbal, F.,1 Friberg, J.,13,14Liao, S.,1Martin, E.,15,16 Meier, M.M.M.,17Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B.,17Soens, B.,15Wieler, R.,1Terfelt, F.
Science Advances 5, eaax4184 Link to Article [DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aax4184]
1Astrogeobiology Laboratory, Department of Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
3Department of Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
4Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, United States
5Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
6School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
7Analytical, Environmental, and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
8Laboratoire G-Time, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
9Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
10Institute of Geology and Oil and Gas Technologies, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation
11Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
12Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
13Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
14CAS Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, Hefei, China
15Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
16Naturmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
17Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States

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Unidentified infrared emission features in mid-infrared spectrum of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

1Takafumi Ootsubo,2,3Hideyo Kawakita,2Yoshiharu Shinnaka,4Jun-ichi Watanabe,5Mitsuhiko Honda
Icarus (in Press) Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113450]
1Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), 3-1-1, Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan
2Laboratory of Infrared High-resolution Spectroscopy (LiH), Koyama Astronomical Observatory, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
3Department of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyoto Sangyo University, Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8555, Japan
4Public Relation Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
5Faculty of Biosphere-Geosphere Science Department of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridaicho, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi 700-0005, Japan
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Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (hereafter, comet 21P/G-Z) is a Jupiter-family comet and a parent comet of the October Draconids meteor shower. If meteoroids originating from a Jupiter-family comet contain complex organic molecules, such as amino acids, they are essential pieces of the puzzle regarding the origin of life on Earth. We observed comet 21P/G-Z in the mid-infrared wavelength region using the Cooled Mid-infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope on UT 2005 July 5. Here, we report the unidentified infrared (UIR) emission features of comet 21P/G-Z, which are likely due to complex organic molecules (both aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons), and the thermal emission from amorphous/crystalline silicates and amorphous carbon grains in its mid-infrared low-resolution spectrum. The UIR features at ~8.2 μm, ~8.5 μm, and ~11.2 μm found in the spectrum of comet 21P/G-Z could be attributed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (or hydrogenated amorphous carbons) contaminated by N- or O-atoms, although part of the feature at ~11.2 μm comes from crystalline olivine. The other feature at ~9.2 μm might originate from aliphatic hydrocarbons. Comet 21P/G-Z is enriched in complex organic molecules. Considering that the derived mass fraction of crystalline silicates in comet 21P/G-Z is typical of comets, we propose that the comet originated from a circumplanetary disk of giant planets (similar to Jupiter and Saturn) where was warmer than the typical comet-forming region (5–30 au from the Sun) and was suitable for the formation of complex organic molecules. Comets from circumplanetary disks might be enriched in complex organic molecules, such as comet 21P/G-Z, and may have provided pre-biotic molecules to ancient Earth by direct impact or meteor showers.