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most citedBack to the Moon: The Scientific Rationale for Resuming Lunar Surface Exploration

183 citations

40 papers

astro-ph.EP2025★ 14 cited

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, François Colas +94

Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmo…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 34 cited

The Ni isotopic composition of Ryugu reveals a common accretion region for carbonaceous chondrites

Fridolin Spitzer, Thorsten Kleine, Christoph Burkhardt +88

The isotopic compositions of samples returned from Cb-type asteroid Ryugu and Ivuna-type (CI) chondrites are distinct from other carbonaceous chondrites, which has led to the sugge…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 15 cited

The Fireball of November 24, 1970, as the Most Probable Source of the Ischgl Meteorite

Maria Gritsevich, Jarmo Moilanen, Jaakko Visuri +13

In June 1976, a pristine meteorite stone weighing approximately 1 kg, fully covered with a fresh black fusion crust, was collected on a mountain road in the high-altitude Alpine en…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 102 cited

The Origin of Chondrules: Constraints from Matrix-Chondrule Complementarity

Herbert Palme, Dominik C. Hezel, Denton S. Ebel

One of the major unresolved problems in cosmochemistry is the origin of chondrules, once molten, spherical silicate droplets with diameters of 0.2 to 2 mm. Chondrules are an essent…

astro-ph.SR2023★ 6 cited

Varying Calcium Abundances in Solar Flares seen by Solar Maximum Mission

Barbara Sylwester, Janusz Sylwester, Kenneth J. H. Phillips +1

We report on calcium abundance estimates during the decay phases of 194 solar X-ray flares using archived data from the Bent Crystal Spectrometer (BCS) on Solar Maxim…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 14 cited

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Components in Chondrites: Search for Processed Materials in Young Solar Systems and Comets

A. Morlok, C. M. Lisse, A. B. Mason +2

We obtained mid-infrared spectra of chondrules, matrix, CAIs and bulk material from primitive type 1-4 chondrites in order to compare them with the dust material in young, forming…