 | | Book | | in your own back yard Author: HUGH CARMAN Hill of Content Editor: TOM KAPITANY To my wife Ann, for...by Marvin Killgore of Arizona, in his demonstration of preparing the meteorite for presentation and...acknowledge the assistance given by the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne in providing meteorites and photographic...presentable manner. First published in Australia in 1995 by Hill of Content Publishing Company Pty Ltd 86...86 Bourke Street Melbourne 3000 Australia Ā© Copyright Hugh Carman 1995 Cover photograph: Rachael Kapitany |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Coupled organic synthesis and mineral alteration on meteorite parent bodies Mitch SCHULTE1* and Everett SHOCK2...Moffett Field, California 94035, USA of Geological Sciences and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona...AbstractāThe hypothesis that the soluble fraction of the organic compounds present in carbonaceous chondrite...chondrite meteorites was formed during aqueous alteration of the parent body was tested with masstransfer, reaction-path...these calculations, we start with likely compositions of the original parent body and asteroidal fluids that |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral-Chemistry, and Composition of the Murchison (C2) Meteorite LOUIS H. FUCHS, EDWARD OLSEN, and...PUBLICATIONS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION The emphasis upon publications as a means of diffusing knowledge...knowledge was expressed by the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In his formal plan for the...publish a series of reports, giving an account of the new discoveries in science, and of the changes made...made from year to year in all branches of knowledge.ā This keynote of basic research has been adhered to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | http://meteoritics.org Magnetic remanence in the Murchison meteorite Gunther KLETETSCHKA,1, 2* Tomas KOHOUT,3...3Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, and Institute of Geology, Academy...Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic *Corresponding author. E-mail: gunther.kletetschka@gsfc.nasa.gov...AbstractāThe Murchison meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite containing a small amount of chondrules,...inclusions, and matrix with occasional porphyroblasts of olivine and/or pyroxene. It also contains amino acids |  | GRONSTAL, Aaron, PEARSON, Victoria, KAPPLER, Andreas, DOORIS, Craig, ANAND, Mahesh, POITRASSON, Franck, KEE, Terence P., COCKELL, Charles S. (2009) Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidizing bacteria. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44 (2) 233-247 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2009.tb00731.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | http://meteoritics.org Laboratory experiments on the weathering of iron meteorites and carbonaceous chondrites by iron-oxidizing...iron-oxidizing bacteria Aaron GRONSTAL1*, Victoria PEARSON2, Andreas KAPPLER3, Craig DOORIS2, Mahesh ANAND4...Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France 6School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT...experiments were performed to investigate the weathering of meteoritic material by iron-oxidizing bacteria. The...ferrooxidans) was capable of oxidizing iron from both carbonaceous chondrites (Murchison and Cold Bokkeveld) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1310ā1318 www.elsevier.com/locate/pss The labelling of meteoritic organic material using osmium tetroxide...Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5B, UK c Department of Earth...relation to inorganic components. We have taken a suite of meteorites including carbonaceous chondrites (CC)...limited by the abundance of organic material within each sample, and the degree of terrestrial contamination...Most meteorites are naturally delivered fragments of asteroids that were accreted in the early Solar System |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell...Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK ...gathering metabolisms on Mars. The iron-rich nature of Mars raises questions on whether the planet could...Earth, and evaluates evidence to date of the presence or absence of relevant redox constituents on Mars...constituents include the presence and prevalence of ferric iron-bearing minerals that may serve as terminal |  | Noguchi, Takaaki, Nakamura, Tomoki, Okudaira, Kyoko, Yano, Hajime, Sugita, Seiji, Burchell, Mark J. (2007) Thermal alteration of hydrated minerals during hypervelocity capture to silica aerogel at the flyby speed of Stardust. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 42 (3) 357-372 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2007.tb00239.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | alteration of hydrated minerals during hypervelocity capture to silica aerogel at the flyby speed of Stardust...Seiji SUGITA5, and Mark J. BURCHELL6 1Department of Materials and Biological Sciences, Ibaraki University...Bunkyo, Mito 310-8512, Japan of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 6-10-1...University of Advanced Studies (Sokendai), 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara 229-8510, Japan 4Institute of Space...229-8510, Japan 5Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | establish the source of these compounds, we determined the carbon isotopic compositions of individual n-alkanes...n-alkanes in meteorites of several different classes and terrestrial histories: Orgueil (CI1), Cold Bokkeveld...Bokkeveld (CM2), Murchison (CM2), Vigarano (CV3), Allende (CV3), Ornans (CO3), and Bishunpur (LL3). The efficiency...efficiency of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) was exploited to provide extractable non-polar organic...spectrometry (GCāMS) and the carbon isotopic composition of individual molecules was determined using isotope |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1111/j.1945-5100.2012.01390.x Catalytic syntheses of amino acids and their signiļ¬cance for nebular and...planetary chemistry Sandra PIZZARELLO Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University...AbstractāIt has been intermittently debated whether some of the organic compounds we ļ¬nd in meteorites, which...composition of different stones of the Tagish Lake meteorite, we studied the likelihood of Fisher Tropsch...Tropsch type syntheses of amino acids from CO, H2, and NH3 in the presence of different meteoritic minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Netherlands 13 [6] EVAPORATION METAMORPHISM OF PRIMITIVE DUST MATERIAL IN THE EARLY SOLAR NEBULA...Department of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464 (Japan) and NAOKI ONUMA Department of Chemistry...material of the Murchison (C2) meteorite up to 1900Ā°C in vacuo has revealed the evaporation sequence of primitive...primitive dust material and the associated evolution of residual solid phases from hydrous silicates through...may have played an important role in the generation of diverse primitive meteorites in the early solar nebula |  | Sephton, Mark A., James, Rachael H., Fehr, Manuela A., Bland, Philip A., Gounelle, Matthieu (2013) Lithium isotopes as indicators of meteorite parent body alteration. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48 (5) 872-878 doi:10.1111/maps.12094 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1111/maps.12094 Lithium isotopes as indicators of meteorite parent body alteration Mark A. SEPHTON1*, Rachael...Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK 3 Department of Environment,... including those generated by the transformation of anhydrous silicates into their hydrated counterparts...Carbonaceous chondrites represent tangible remnants of such alteration products. Lithium isotopes are known...from the same meteorite appears to complicate the use of these isotopes as indicators of processing by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl Enantiomeric excesses of chiral amines in ammonia-rich carbonaceous meteorites...Pizzarello a,ā , Christopher T. Yarnes b a b School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe...85287-1604, United States Department of Plant Sciences, University of CaliforniaāDavis, Davis, CA 95616...to the structure and function of terrestrial biopolymers but the origin of this āhomochiralityā is poorly...understood and remains one of the many unknowns surrounding the origins of life. Several amino acids extracted |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | evolution. Essay to the memory of Bartholomew Nagy Hans D. Pflug Department of Applied Geosciences, Justu...Abstract A review is presented of the currently available evidence of life in the Precambrian, with special...microfossils of the size range 0.1ā3 mm. The particles are spotted in thin sections of the rock under...under high apertures of the light microscope, and have been examined in demineralized thick sections under... On the basis of such studies, the interaction of microorganisms with the formation of minerals can be |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Richard M. Kettler * Department of Geosciences, University of NebraskaāLincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588...under conditions of metastable equilibrium. In this study, previously published values of dicarboxylic acid...acid concentrations measured in Murchison, Yamato-791198, and Tagish Lake carbonaceous chondrites are...from 1:10 to 10:1. Logarithmic plots of the aqueous activities of any two dicarboxylic acids are proximal...to lines whose slope is ļ¬xed by the stoichiometry of reactions describing the oxidationāreduction equilibrium |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MSA Centennial Symposium An evolutionary system of mineralogy. Part I: Stellar mineralogy (>13 to 4...Minerals preserve records of the physical, chemical, and biological histories of their origins and subsequent...vivid narrative of the evolution of Earth and other worlds through billions of years of cosmic history...properties, including trace and minor elements, ratios of isotopes, solid and fluid inclusions, external morphologies...represent information that points to specific modes of formation and subsequent environmental historiesāinformation |  | Bunch, T.E., Chang, S., Frick, U., Neil, J., Moreland, G. (1979) Carbonaceous chondritesāI. Characterization and significance of carbonaceous chondrite (CM) xenoliths in the Jodzie howardite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 43 (11) 1727-1742 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(79)90021-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Car~naceous chondrites-I. Characterization and si~ificance of carbonaceous chondrite (CM) xenoliths in the Jodzie...94035, U.S.A. %zpartment of Physics and ?Space Science Laboratory, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley...Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A. āDivision of Meteorites, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, U.S...Abstract-Mineralogical, chemical, textural, and isotopic studies of the abundant carbonaceous inclusions in the Jodzie...alteration on a level comparable to the Murray and Murchison meteorites but less than Nagoya, flow-oriented |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8001, New Zealand Institute of Plant Sciences...Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Postfach 185, CH-83-15 Eschikon Lindau,...extraction contributes to the formation and weathering of planetary materials and renders electrolytes such...available for biology. In this context, the solubility of phosphate is measured in planetary materials, represented...(EETA 79001), and terrestrial analogs, and in the Murchison CM2 and Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrites. The |  | Pearson, Victoria K., Sephton, Mark A., Kearsley, Anton T., Bland, Philip A., Franchi, Ian A., Gilmour, Iain (2002) Clay mineral-organic matter relationships in the early solar system. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37 (12) 1829-1833 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb01166.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | matter relationships in the early solar system VICTORIA K. PEARSONl*, MARKA. SEPHTONl, ANTON T. KEARSLEy2...Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK7 6AA, U.K. 2School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes...a rich organic chemistry, the molecular products of which are preserved in ancient extraterrestrial objects...valuable and tangible record of the chemical steps taken towards the origin of life in the early solar system...Chondritic organic matter is present in the inorganic meteorite matrix which, in the CM and CI chondrites, contains |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elsevier.com/locate/gca Evaluating reaction pathways of hydrothermal abiotic organic synthesis at elevated...Experiments were performed to better understand the role of environmental factors on reaction pathways and corresponding...fractionations during abiotic hydrothermal synthesis of organic compounds using piston cylinder apparatus...apparatus at 750 Ā°C and 5.5 kbars. Chemical compositions of experimental products and corresponding carbon isotopic...high water pressure conditions. The pattern of d13C values of CO2, carboxylic acids and alkanes are consistent |  | Wang, Yi, Huang, Yongsong, Alexander, Conel M.O.āD., Fogel, Marilyn, Cody, George (2005) Molecular and compound-specific hydrogen isotope analyses of insoluble organic matter from different carbonaceous chondrite groups. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69 (14) 3711-3721 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2005.03.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Molecular and compound-specific hydrogen isotope analyses of insoluble organic matter from different carbonaceous...Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912-1846 USA Department of Terrestrial...Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015 USA 3 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington...analyses of molecular distribution and ā¦D values of individual compounds in pyrolysates of insoluble...compound-specific D/H analysis. IOM samples from six meteorites of different classifications, Elephant Moraine (EET) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | http://meteoritics.org Molecular and isotopic indicators of alteration in CR chondrites V. K. PEARSON1*, M. A...2Impacts and Astromaterials Research Centre, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, South Kensington Campus...2006) AbstractāThe CR group of carbonaceous chondrites may represent some of the most primitive extraterrestrial...characteristics can be used to discern the alteration histories of the carbonaceous chondrites. We have performed bulk... and Yamato [Y-] 790112) to determine the nature of their organic component. Renazzo, Al Rais, and Y-790112 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mechanisms of formation PETERG. STOKESand ALAN W. SCHWARTZ Laboratory of Exobiology. Faculty of Science...reoisedform 3 December 1980) Abstract-Samples of the Murchison (CZ), Murray (C2) and Orgueil (Cl) carbonaceous...xanthine were identified in formic acid extracts of all samples, in concentrations ranging from 114-655...have not previously been found in the Murray meteorite and adenine. hypoxanthine and xanthine have never...never simultaneously been detected in meteorite extracts. All four biologically significant purines, as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineraiogy and petrogenesis of a hibonite inclusion from the Murchison meteorite* JOHN T. ARMSTRONG,G. P...LunaticAsylum,Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena...detailed mineralogic, chemical, and petrologic study of the Blue Angel, a relatively large (- 1.5 mm) hibonite-containing...inclusion from the Murchison meteorite, was performed in an attempt to understand the mechanisms of formation...modification of hibonite-rich inclusions. The Blue Angel inclusion is composed of roughly equal amounts of hibonite |  | Zolensky, Michael E., Mittlefehldt, David W., Lipschutz, Michael E., Wang, Ming-Sheng, Clayton, Robert N., Mayeda, Toshiko K., Grady, Monica M., Pillinger, Colin, B, David (1997) CM chondrites exhibit the complete petrologic range from type 2 to 1. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61 (23) 5099-5115 doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(97)00357-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NASA Rd. 1, Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3Depamnent of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana...Indiana 47907, USA 4Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 5Planetary...Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK 6physics Department, University of Essex, Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ, UK (Received September...characterized the most phyllosilicate-rich members of the CM chondrite group. Based upon petrographic and...lack of anhydrous silicates, CAI and (except as relicts) chondrules merits the classification of type |
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