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Raman analysis of organic refractory materials after energetic processing: Evidence for amorphous carbon on TNOs and comets

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Amorphous carbon (αC) is found in various extraterrestrial particles, including those thought to originate from the outer Solar System. αC can form through two main processes involving C‐rich materials: exposure to energetic charged particles and thermal processing.
M. Germanà, A. Vyjidak, G. A. Baratta, B. M. Giuliano, R. G. Urso, C. Scirè, D. Fulvio, T. Grassi, P. Jusko, P. Caselli, M. E. Palumbo   +10 more
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Explainer: what is interplanetary dust and can it spread the ingredients of life? [PDF]

, 2015
First paragraph: NASA recently reported that a cloud of dust was surrounding Mars high above its atmosphere. The authors of the study ruled out Mars itself and its moons Phobos and Deimos as the sources of the dust and concluded that it must come from a ...
Schroeder, Christian
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Production, Transport, and Destruction of Dust in the Kuiper Belt: The Effects of Refractory and Volatile Grain Compositions

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (SDC) on board the New Horizons spacecraft measures the spatial and size distributions of dust along its trajectory.
Thomas Corbett, Alex Doner, Mihály Horányi, Pontus Brandt, Will Grundy, Carey M. Lisse, Joel Parker, Lowell Peltier, Andrew R. Poppe, Kelsi N. Singer, S. Alan Stern, Anne J. Verbiscer   +11 more
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Origin and formation of a chondritic xenolith in Krymka (LL3.2, breccia): Indications for a late formation of the accretionary breccia

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract An unusual chondritic xenolith was found in two sequentially prepared thin sections of a sample from the Krymka (LL3.2) chondrite. The xenolith has a rounded, slightly deformed shape of about 5 mm in apparent diameter and is partially surrounded by a double rim made of an inner fine‐grained silicate‐rich rim and an outer sulfide‐rich rim.
Aelita Girich, Addi Bischoff, Samuel Ebert, Kazuhide Nagashima, Andreas Morlok, Harald Hiesinger, Jasper Berndt   +6 more
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Geo-engineering using dust grains in heliotropic elliptical orbits [PDF]

, 2011
This paper examines the concept of a Saturn-like Earth ring comprised of dust grains to offset global warming. A new family of non-Keplerian periodic orbits, under the effects of solar radiation pressure and the Earth’s oblateness J2 perturbation, is ...
Bewick, Russell, Colombo, Camilla, Sanchez Cuartielles, Joan-Pau, Sanchez, J. P., Bewick, R, Lücking, C., McInnes, Colin, Mcinnes, C. R., Lucking, Charlotte   +8 more
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Nanoscale space weathering features in mature lunar soil revealed by TEM and APT

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Space weathering significantly alters the optical, chemical, and structural properties of lunar regolith at micro‐ and nanoscales; yet detailed nanoscale variability within individual soils remains underexplored. Here we apply transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe tomography to four mineral grains (olivine, ilmenite, and two ...
Jennika Greer, Alexander M. Kling, Luke Daly, Dieter Isheim, David N. Seidman, Michelle S. Thompson, Philipp R. Heck   +6 more
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The first discovery of a shocked, metasomatised CV3 chondrule‐fragment in a (Al,Cu)‐bearing micrometeorite

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report the discovery of the second (Al,Cu)‐alloy–bearing micrometeorite, FB‐A2, recovered from Mount Gariglione (southern Italy), representing the sixth such occurrence worldwide. Although chondritic in nature, FB‐A2 differs markedly from previously described microspherules.
Giovanna Agrosì, Paola Manzari, Daniela Mele, Johan Villeneuve, Tiziano Catelani, Mattew J. Genge, Luca Bindi   +6 more
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A Rotational Disruption Crisis for Zodiacal Dust

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A systematic torque from anisotropic radiation can rapidly spin up irregular grains to the point of breakup. We apply the standard theory of rotational disruption from radiative torques to solar system grains, finding that grains with radii ∼0.03–3 μ m ...
Kedron Silsbee, Brandon S. Hensley, Jamey R. Szalay, Petr Pokorný, Jeong-Gyu Kim   +4 more
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Laboratory studies of interplanetary dust [PDF]

, 1986
Interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) are a form of primitive extraterrestrial material. In spite of the formidable experimental problems in working with particles that are too small to be seen with the naked eye, it has proven possible to obtain ...
Walker, R. M.
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Sources of Interplanetary Dust [PDF]

Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 1980
It is generally assumed that ejections from active cometary nuclei are the major source of replenishment of the interplanetary dust complex. Conjectures against this concept are usually based on comparison of the quantitative efficiency of the dust production by comets with the efficiency of all the dissipative processes involved.
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