Open questions on carbonaceous matter in meteorites Every year several tons of extraterrestrial material reach Earth’s surface but only a fraction of it ends up in the hands of geoscientists. In their recently published comment, Oliver...
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How does recorded temperature changes upon impact shock? Anna Barbaro and co-authors estimated temperature by a graphite-thermometer based on micro-raman spectroscopy data, on 5 ureilitic fragments (FRO 95028, FRO 01089, FRO 97013, FRO 01088 and...
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Characterization of carbon phases in Yamato 74123 ureilite to constrain the meteorite shock history The formation and shock history of primitive achondrites meteorites such as ureilite has been debated for decades! The characterization of carbon...
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In this book chapter (from the book “Mars: A volcanic World”), Nicola Mari described the potential for Martian lava tubes to provide the most practical and effective habitats for the first human missions on Mars. A lava tube is a cave...
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Impact diamonds in ureilites by catalytic growth involving Fe-Ni-silicide: The example of Kenna meteorite The occurrence of shock-induced diamonds in ureilite meteorites is common and is used to constrain the history of the ureilite parent...
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Barringer award to Anna Barbaro The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research has been established as a memorial to recognize the contributions of Brandon, Moreau, Paul, and Richard Barringer to the field of meteoritics and the...
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The origin of diamonds in ureilites is still a debated issue among the scientific community, with significant implications for the sizes of early Solar System bodies. We investigated three diamond-bearing ureilites by a multimethodological...
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Diamond-Graphene Composite Nanostructures In their latest paper Mara and co-workers describe two new families of diamond-graphene (diaphite) phases constructed from layered and bonded sp3 and sp2 nanostructural units and provide a framework for...
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Cooling history and emplacement of a pyroxenitic lava as proxy for understanding Martian lava flows Our PhD student Mara Murri at her second Scientific Reports paper for this year! Congratulations!! She has now concluded her studies on the...
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Once again on the shock impact topic. In her new nice manuscript in Scientific Reports Mara Murri presents some of the recent considerations about structural disorder in the form of complex combinations of cubic and hexagonal stacking motifs...
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Our physicist Marco Piazzi has now finalized a very nice article that combines several methodologies for the investigation of the magnetic response of Fe rich inclusions in diamonds. Very exciting story!! For further reading the manuscript can be...
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A new brilliant manuscript by Boriana and Naemi that finally revise the phase transition(s) of ZrSiO4 at high pressure conditions. In this manuscript published in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals they present the experimental proof for the...
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