{"title":"86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2024)","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/maps.14240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 S1","pages":"A1-A468"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maps.14240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2024)","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/maps.14239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 S1","pages":"i-xlii"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maps.14239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142077863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. J. Floyd, S. Benito, P.-E. Martin, L. E. Jenkins, E. Dunham, L. Daly, M. R. Lee
{"title":"Chondrule sizes within the CM carbonaceous chondrites and measurement methodologies","authors":"C. J. Floyd, S. Benito, P.-E. Martin, L. E. Jenkins, E. Dunham, L. Daly, M. R. Lee","doi":"10.1111/maps.14250","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maps.14250","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The sizes of chondrules are a valuable tool for understanding relationships between meteorite groups and the affinity of ungrouped chondrites, documenting temporal/spatial variability in the solar nebula, and exploring the effects of parent body processing. Many of the recently reported sizes of chondrules within the CM carbonaceous chondrites differ significantly from the established literature average and are more closely comparable to those of chondrules within CO chondrites. Here, we report an updated analysis of chondrule dimensions within the CM group based on data from 1937 chondrules, obtained across a suite of CM lithologies ranging from petrologic subtypes CM2.2 to CM2.7. Our revised average CM chondrule size is 194 μm. Among the samples examined, a relationship was observed between petrologic subtype and chondrule size such that chondrule long-axis lengths are greater in the more highly aqueously altered lithologies. These findings suggest a greater similarity between the CM and CO chondrites than previously thought and support arguments for a genetic link between the two groups (i.e., the CM-CO clan). Using the 2-D and 3-D data gathered, we also apply numerous stereological corrections to examine their usefulness in correcting 2-D chondrule measurements within the CM chondrites. Alongside this analysis, we present the details of a standardized methodology for 2-D chondrule size measurement to facilitate more reliable inter-study comparisons.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2769-2788"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maps.14250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141927342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Petrographic and geochemical analysis of lunar meteorite NWA 11788: Parallels with Luna 20 and the Apollo magnesian granulites","authors":"Craig R. Hulsey, Katie M. O'Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/maps.14248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14248","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The first in-depth geochemical and petrological analyses of new lunar meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 11788 were conducted with the aim of better understanding the diversity of lunar rock types. Petrography, microcomputed tomography, electron probe microanalysis, and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry were employed to analyze mineralogic/elemental makeup, petrologic profile, melt history, and inferred composition of the lunar mantle from which the crystals in this sample originated from. Geochemical maps of the lunar surface were generated to constrain potential lunar launch locations for NWA 11788. Potential launch locations are concentrated in the outer rims of impact basins on the lunar Eastern nearside limb (e.g., Crisium, Fecunditatis, Marginis, Smythii) and around the South Pole–Aitken Basin. Similarities in the major, minor, and trace element chemistry of NWA 11788 along with its potential launch locations suggest a petrogenetic relationship with regolith samples returned from the Luna 20 mission and the Apollo 16 and 17 magnesian granulites. Additionally, the results of this study add to the growing body of evidence that KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorous)-poor, Mg-suite-“like” lithologies are common in non-Apollo-type locales, that KREEP may not be required to generate lithologies like the Mg-suite, and that KREEP is not globally distributed at present.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2744-2768"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maps.14248","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Addi Bischoff, Markus Patzek, Jean-Alix Barrat, Jasper Berndt, Henner Busemann, Detlev Degering, Tommaso Di Rocco, Mattias Ek, Dennis Harries, Jose R. A. Godinho, Dieter Heinlein, Armin Kriele, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Oscar Marchhart, Rachael M. Marshal, Martin Martschini, Silke Merchel, Andreas Möller, Andreas Pack, Herbert Raab, Maximilian P. Reitze, Ina Rendtel, Miriam Rüfenacht, Oliver Sachs, Maria Schönbächler, Anja Schuppisser, Iris Weber, Alexander Wieser, Karl Wimmer
{"title":"Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history","authors":"Addi Bischoff, Markus Patzek, Jean-Alix Barrat, Jasper Berndt, Henner Busemann, Detlev Degering, Tommaso Di Rocco, Mattias Ek, Dennis Harries, Jose R. A. Godinho, Dieter Heinlein, Armin Kriele, Daniela Krietsch, Colin Maden, Oscar Marchhart, Rachael M. Marshal, Martin Martschini, Silke Merchel, Andreas Möller, Andreas Pack, Herbert Raab, Maximilian P. Reitze, Ina Rendtel, Miriam Rüfenacht, Oliver Sachs, Maria Schönbächler, Anja Schuppisser, Iris Weber, Alexander Wieser, Karl Wimmer","doi":"10.1111/maps.14245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14245","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1889 the German poet and novelist Theodor Fontane wrote the popular literary ballad “Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland.” The Squire von Ribbeck is described as a gentle and generous person, who often gives away pears from his pear trees to children passing by and continued donating pears after his death. Now, 135 years later the rock called <i>Ribbeck</i> is giving us insight into processes that happened 4.5 billion years ago. The meteorite Ribbeck (official find location: 52°37′15″N, 12°45′40″E) fell January 21, 2024, and has been classified as a brecciated aubrite. This meteoroid actually entered the Earth's atmosphere at 00:32:38 UTC over Brandenburg, west of Berlin, and the corresponding fireball was recorded by professional all sky and video cameras. More than 200 pieces (two proved by radionuclide analysis to belong to this fresh fall) were recovered totaling about 1.8 kg. Long-lived radionuclide and noble gas data are consistent with long cosmic ray exposure (55–62 Ma) and a preatmospheric radius of Ribbeck between 20 and 30 cm. The heavily brecciated aubrite consists of major (76 ± 3 vol%) coarse-grained FeO-free enstatite (En<sub>99.1</sub>Fs<sub><0.04</sub>Wo<sub>0.9</sub>), with a significant abundance (15.0 ± 2.5 vol%) of albitic plagioclase (Ab<sub>95.3</sub> An<sub>2.0</sub>Or<sub>2.7</sub>), minor forsterite (5.5 ± 1.5 vol%; Fo<sub>99.9</sub>) and 3.5 ± 1.0 vol% of opaque phases (mainly sulfides and metals) with traces of nearly FeO-free diopside (En<sub>53.2</sub>Wo<sub>46.8</sub>) and K-feldspar (Ab<sub>4.6</sub>Or<sub>95.4</sub>). The rock has a shock degree of S3 (U-S3), and terrestrial weathering has affected metals and sulfides, resulting in the brownish appearance of rock pieces and the partial destruction of certain sulfides already within days after the fall. The bulk chemical data confirm the feldspar-bearing aubritic composition. Ribbeck is closely related to the aubrite Bishopville. Ribbeck does not contain solar wind implanted gases and is a fragmental breccia. Concerning the Ti- and O-isotope compositions, the data are similar to those of other aubrites. They are also similar to E chondrites and fall close to the data point for the bulk silicate Earth (BSE). Before the Ribbeck meteoroid entered Earth's atmosphere, it was observed in space as asteroid 2024 BX1. The aphelion distance of 2024 BX1's orbit lies in the innermost region of the asteroid belt, which is populated by the Hungaria family of minor planets characterized by their E/X-type taxonomy and considered as the likely source of aubrites. The spectral comparison of an average large-scale emission spectrum of Mercury converted into reflectance and of the Ribbeck meteorite spectrum does not show any meaningful similarities.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2660-2694"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/maps.14245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142430403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. V. Petrova, A. V. Chukin, G. Varga, Z. Dankházi, G. Leitus, I. Felner, E. Kuzmann, Z. Homonnay, V. I. Grokhovsky, M. I. Oshtrakh
{"title":"Characterization of bulk interior and fusion crust of Calama 009 L6 ordinary chondrite","authors":"E. V. Petrova, A. V. Chukin, G. Varga, Z. Dankházi, G. Leitus, I. Felner, E. Kuzmann, Z. Homonnay, V. I. Grokhovsky, M. I. Oshtrakh","doi":"10.1111/maps.14249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14249","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fragment of Calama 009 L6 ordinary chondrite recovered in the Atacama Desert was chosen for a complex study of the bulk interior and the fusion crust by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetization measurements, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. SEM demonstrated the presence of Fe-Ni-Co grains, troilite and chromite inclusions in both the bulk interior and the fusion crust as well as many veins with ferric compound. EDS showed variations in the Ni concentration within the metal grains and within one metal phase in the grain. XRD revealed some differences in the contents of various phases in the bulk interior and in the fusion crust. XRD indicated the presence of magnesioferrite in the fusion crust as well as the formation of goethite nanoparticles with the mean size of 9 nm in both the bulk interior and the fusion crust. Magnetization measurements demonstrated the ferrimagnetic–paramagnetic phase transition in chromite at 44 K and low values of the saturation magnetization moments (6.46 and 3.26 emu g<sup>−1</sup> at 100 K) for the bulk interior and the fusion crust, respectively, due to the lack of Fe-Ni-Co alloy as a result of weathering. The Mössbauer spectra of the bulk interior and the fusion crust showed some differences in the number and relative areas of spectral components. The revealing of the Mössbauer spectral components related to <sup>57</sup>Fe in the M1 and M2 sites in olivine and orthopyroxene as well as determining the Fe<sup>2+</sup> occupations of these sites from XRD permitted us to estimate the temperature of equilibrium cation distribution for these silicates which are (i) 662 K (XRD) and 706 K (Mössbauer spectroscopy) for olivine and (ii) 893 K (XRD) and 910 K (Mössbauer spectroscopy) for orthopyroxene.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2865-2879"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142430308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniela Guerrero, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Natalia Hauser, Igor Figueiredo, Lucas Kenni, Philippe Lambert
{"title":"Zircon U-Pb provenance analysis of impact melt and target rocks from the Rochechouart impact structure, France","authors":"Daniela Guerrero, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Natalia Hauser, Igor Figueiredo, Lucas Kenni, Philippe Lambert","doi":"10.1111/maps.14247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14247","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Rochechouart impact structure in the northwestern part of the French Massif Central (FMC) has a great diversity of impactites, including monomict impact breccias, suevite, and impact melt rocks (IMRs). The structure is strongly eroded, which allows the study of impactites of the crater fill and the transition into the crater floor. The FMC has had a multistage geological evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the Ordovician (600–450 Ma) until the later stages of the Variscan orogeny (~300 Ma). Previous geochronological work on Rochechouart has been focused mainly on the impactites and constraining the impact age, and scarce work has been done on the FMC-related target rocks. Here, U-Pb isotope analysis by LA-MC-ICP-MS has been conducted on zircon from two IMRs from the Recoudert and Montoume localities, and from a monzodiorite, a paragneiss, and two amphibolite samples of the basement to the impact structure. Zircon from the target rocks yielded mainly Neoproterozoic to Carboniferous ages (~924 to ~301 Ma) that can mostly be correlated to different stages of the geological evolution of the FMC. The monzodiorite also yielded a Permian age of 272 ± 12 Ma. Zircon from the IMRs, and especially from the Montoume sample, gave a comparatively higher diversity of Neoproterozoic to Jurassic ages (~552 to ~195 Ma). Provenance analysis for the zircon age populations of the impactites compared to those of the basement rocks shows overall poor correlation between the two age groups. This suggests that other target lithologies were involved in the formation of these impact melts as well. Post-Variscan and preimpact ages (281–226 Ma) obtained for both melt rocks probably reflect a previously unconstrained event in the evolution of the regional geological history. Ages similar to the currently most widely accepted impact age of ~204–206 Ma were obtained from both IMR samples. In addition, the Montoume melt rock yielded several post-204 Ma ages, which might reflect a to date unconstrained, about 194 Ma postimpact thermal/hydrothermal event.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2718-2743"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142430294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carolinna da Silva Maia de Souza, Natalia Hauser, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Renato Borges Bernardes, Lucieth Cruz Vieira, Edi Mendes Guimarães, Manfred Gottwald
{"title":"Araguainha impact structure, Brazil: New insights into the geology of the central uplift","authors":"Carolinna da Silva Maia de Souza, Natalia Hauser, Wolf Uwe Reimold, Renato Borges Bernardes, Lucieth Cruz Vieira, Edi Mendes Guimarães, Manfred Gottwald","doi":"10.1111/maps.14236","DOIUrl":"10.1111/maps.14236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extensive, new outcrops along the MT-100 state road in the northern part of the central uplift of the 40-km diameter, 252–259 Ma old Araguainha impact structure, Central Brazil, have become available for investigation. They offer new insight into the contact relationships between the different lithologies and the genesis of different types of impact-related rocks, as well as the current level of erosion of the structure. Three types of impact melt rock (IMR) with different field relationships and compositions can now be distinguished: (1) Type-I of granitic composition and occurring mainly as veins and dikes, besides a few larger pods, in the central alkali granite core of the central uplift; (2) Type-II in the form of plastically deformed clasts of mainly highly silicious compositions in polymict impact breccia; and (3) Type-III, derived from partially melted conglomerate or sandstone precursors, and that occurs at selected sites in (meta)sedimentary strata of the basement in the immediate environs of the alkali granite core. Both polymict lithic and melt-bearing (suevitic) impact breccias are recognized in the 110-m thick integrated section through impact breccia directly overlying the crater floor. This crater floor is composed of (meta)-sedimentary basement strata with granite injections and, locally, sandstones of the Devonian sedimentary Furnas Formation of the Paraná Basin. Main breccia components are (meta)-pelites and (meta)sandstones of the basement that is currently favored to be related to the regional Paraguay Belt and to the lower sequence of the Paraná Basin sedimentary strata. Locally, breccia contains clasts of IMR Type-II, and only very rarely are granitic fragments observed. Clasts of IMR Type-I have never been observed in the breccia deposits. These new observations preclude significant involvement of alkali granite in the formation of the polymict breccia or in the production of shock melts. They also reveal the major role of the (meta)sedimentary precursors in the production of IMR by shock melting and provide essential information for better understanding the cratering processes involved in the formation of an impact structure in a sedimentary target, of the size of the Araguainha impact structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":18555,"journal":{"name":"Meteoritics & Planetary Science","volume":"59 10","pages":"2577-2607"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}