Publications (4)
Ice Deposition Fronts In Porous Bodies From Transient Heating Events In a Protoplanetary Disk
Stephen Li, Alice C. Quillen, Adam E. Rubinstein +2
The paper models how transient heating events in a protoplanetary disk cause volatile gases to diffuse into porous bodies and form moving ice deposition fronts, altering the subsur…
QRIS: A Quantitative Reflectance Imaging System for the Pristine Sample of Asteroid Bennu
Ruby E. Fulford, Dathon R. Golish, Dante S. Lauretta +12
The Quantitative Reflectance Imaging System (QRIS) is a laboratory-based spectral imaging system constructed to image the sample of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by the Origins…
A Pyroxenite Mantle on Mercury? Experimental Insights from Enstatite Chondrite Melting at Pressures up to 5 GPa
Asmaa Boujibar, Kevin Righter, Emmanuel Fontaine +4
Enstatite chondrites (EC) are potential source material for the accretion of Mercury due to their reduced nature and enrichment in volatile elements. Understanding their melting pr…
Origin of the Moon
Robin M. Canup, Kevin Righter, Nicolas Dauphas +8
The Earth-Moon system is unusual in several respects. The Moon is roughly 1/4 the radius of the Earth - a larger satellite-to-planet size ratio than all known satellites other than…