Astrobiology Research Priorities for Primitive Asteroids

References

Asphaug, E. (2009) Growth and Evolution of Asteroids. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 37, 413-448.

Bennett, Marvin E., III; McSween, Harry Y., Jr. (1996) Revised model calculations for the thermal histories of ordinary chondrite parent bodies. Meteoritics 31, 783-792.

Bottke W. F., Nesvorny D., Grimm R. E., Morbidelli A., and O'Brien D. P. (2006) Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region. Nature 439, 821-824.

Brearley, A. J., (2006). The Action of Water. In: Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (Eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Cameron A. G. W. (1995) The first 10-million years in the solar nebula. Meteoritics 30, 133-161.

Ceplecha Z. (1992) Influx of interplanetary bodies onto Earth. Astron. Astrophys. 263, p. 361-366.

Chesley S. R., Ostro S. J., Vokrouhlicky D., Capek D., Giorgini J. D., Nolan M. C., Margot J. L., Hine A. A., Benner L. A. M., and Chamberlin A. B. (2003) Direct detection of the Yarkovsky effect by radar ranging to asteroid 6489 Golevka. Science 302, 1739-1742.

Ciesla, Fred J.; Hood, Lon L. (2002) The Nebular Shock Wave Model for Chondrule Formation: Shock Processing in a Particle-Gas Suspension. Icarus 158, 281-293.

Clayton, Robert N. (2007) Isotopes: From Earth to the Solar System. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 35, 1-19.

Cody G., Alexander C. M. O’D., and Tera F. (2002) Solid state (1H and 13C) NMR spectroscopy of the insoluble organic residue in the Murchison meteorite: A self-consistent quantitative analysis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 1851-1865.

Cody, G. D. and Alexander, C. M. O., 2005. NMR studies of chemical structural variation of insoluble organic matter from different carbonaceous chondrite groups. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69, 1085-1097.

Cohen, B.A., T.D. Swindle, D.A. Kring, Support for the lunar cataclysm hypothesis from lunar meteorite impact melt ages, Science, 290, 1754—1756 (2000).

Connolly, H. C., Jr.; Desch, S. J.; Ash, R. D.; Jones, R. H. (2006). Transient Heating Events in the Protoplanetary Nebula. In: Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (Eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Cronin J.R. and Pizzarello S. (1983) Amino acids in meteorites. Adv. Space Res., 3, 5-18.

Cronin J.R., Pizarello S., and Frye J.S. (1987) 13C NMR spectroscopy of insoluble carbon in carbonaceous chondrites. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 51, 299-303.

Davis (2006). Volatile Element Depletions. In: Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (Eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Delbó, Marco; Harris, Alan W. (2002) Physical properties of near-Earth asteroids from thermal infrared observations and thermal modeling. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 1929-1936 (2002)

Delbo, Marco; Dell'Oro, Aldo; Harris, Alan W.; Mottola, Stefano; Mueller, Michael (2007) Thermal inertia of near-Earth asteroids and implications for the magnitude of the Yarkovsky effect. Icarus, Volume 190, Issue 1, p. 236-249. (Icarus Homepage) Desch & Connolly 2002

Drake M. J. (2001) The eucrite/Vesta story. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 36, 501-513.

Emery J. P. and Brown R. H. (2003) Constraints on the surface composition of Trojan asteroids from near-infrared (0.8-4.0 µm) spectroscopy. Icarus 164, 104-121.

Feigelson E.D. and Montmerle T. (1999) High-energy processes in young stellar objects. Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 37, 363-408.

Gail H.P. (1998) Chemical reactions in protoplanetary accretion disks – IV. Multicomponent dust mixture. Astron. Astrophys., 332, 1099-1122.

Giorgini JD, Benner LAM, Ostro SJ, Nolan MC, Busch MW. 2008. Predicting the Earth encounters of (99942) Apophis. Icarus 193:1–19

Gomes R., Levison H. F., Tsiganis K., and Morbidelli A. (2005) Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets. Nature 435, 466-469.

Gradie, J.; Tedesco, E. (1982) Compositional structure of the asteroid belt. Science 216, 1405-1407.

Grossman L., Beckett J. R., Fedkin A. V., Simon S. B., Ciesla F. J. (2008) Chapter 7: Redox conditions in the solar nebula: observational, experimental, and theoretical constraints. In: Oxygen in the Solar System, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 68, 93-140.

Hahn, J.M., and Malhotra, R., Orbital evolution of planets embedded in a massive planetesimal disk, AJ 117:3041-3053 (1999)

Harris and Warner 2009

Herbert F., Sonett C. P., and Gaffey M. J. (1991) Protoplanetary thermal metamorphism - The hypothesis of electromagnetic induction in the protosolar wind. In: The Sun in Time Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona Press, 710-739.

Hergenrother et al. 2009

Hiroi T., Zolensky M. E., and Pieters C. M. (2001) The Tagish Lake meteorite: A possible sample from a D-type asteroid. Science 293, 2234-2236.

Hsieh, H. H.; Jewitt, D. (2006) A Population of Comets in the Main Asteroid Belt. Science 312, 561-563.

Humayun M. and Cassen P. (2000) Processes determining the volatile abundances of the meteorites and terrestrial planets. In Origin of the Earth and Moon (ed. R. M. Canup and K. Righter), pp. 3-24. The University of Arizona Press.

Jenniskens P., Wilson M.A., Packan D., Laux C.O., Boyd I.D., Popova O.P., Fonda M. (2000) Meteors: A delivery mechanism of organic matter to the Early Earth. Earth, Moon, Plan. 82-83, p. 57-70.

Jenniskens, P.; Shaddad, M. H.; Numan, D.; Elsir, S.; Kudoda, A. M.; Zolensky, M. E.; Le, L.; Robinson, G. A.; Friedrich, J. M.; Rumble, D.; Steele, A.; Chesley, S. R.; Fitzsimmons, A.; Duddy, S.; Hsieh, H. H.; Ramsay, G.; Brown, P. G.; Edwards, W. N.; Tagliaferri, E.; Boslough, M. B.; Spalding, R. E.; Dantowitz, R.; Kozubal, M.; Pravec, P.; Borovicka, J.; Charvat, Z.; Vaubaillon, J.; Kuiper, J.; Albers, J.; Bishop, J. L.; Mancinelli, R. L.; Sandford, S. A.; Milam, S. N.; Nuevo, M.; Worden, S. P. (2009) The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3. Nature 458, 485-488.

Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (2006), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Levison, H.F.; Morbidelli, A.; Van Laerhoven, C.; Gomes, R.; Tsiganis, K., Origin of the Structure of the Kuiper Belt during a Dynamical Instability in the Orbits of Uranus and Neptune, arXiv:0712.0553v1 [astro-ph]

Lodders, K., 2003. Solar system abundances and condensation temperatures of the elements. Astrophysical Journal 591, 1220-1247.

Martins, Z., Alexander, C. M. O., Orzechowska, G. E., Fogel, M. L., and Ehrenfreund, P., 2007. Indigenous amino acids in primitive CR meteorites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 42, 2125-2136.

Meyer and Zinner (2006). Nucleosynthesis. In: Lauretta, D. S. and McSween, H. Y. (Eds.), Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.

Minton, D.A., and Malhotra, R., Secular Resonance Sweeping of Asteroids During the Late Heavy Bombardment, Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIX, LPI Contribution No. 1391., p.2481 (2008)

Mojzsis S.J., Arrhenius G., McKeegan K.D., Harrison T.M., Nutman A.P. Friend C.R.L. (1996) Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago. Nature 384, p.55-59.

Ostro SJ, Hudson RS, Benner LAM, Giorgini JD, Magri C, et al. 2002. Asteroid radar astronomy. In: Asteroids III. Tucson: Univ. Ariz.

Pizzarello, S., Holmes, W. (2009) Nitrogen-containing compounds in two CR2 meteorites: 15N composition, molecular distribution and precursor molecules, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, IN PRESS.

Pizarello S., Huang Y., Becker L., Poreda R. J., Nieman R.A., Cooper G. and Williams M. (2001) The organic content of the Tagish Lake meteorite. Science, 293, 2236-2239.

Pizzarello S., Zolensky M. and Turk K. 2003. Non-racemic isovaline in the Murchison meteorite: Chiral distribution and mineral association. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67, 1589-1595.

Pizarello S., Cooper G.W., and Flynn G.J. (2006) The nature and distribution of the organic material in carbonaceous chondrites and interplanetary dust particles. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr., eds.) pp. 625-651. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson.

Rubin, Alan E. (1995) Petrologic evidence for collisional heating of chondritic asteroids. Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 113, no. 1, p. 156-167

Scheeres DJ, Ostro SJ, Hudson RS,Werner RA. 1996. Orbits close to asteroid 4769 Castalia. Icarus 121:67–87

Scheeres DJ, Fahnestock EG, Ostro SJ, Margot JL, Benner LAM, et al. 2006. Dynamical configuration of binary near-Earth asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4. Science 314(5803):1280–83

Shu F. H., H. Shang, T. Lee (1996) Toward an Astrophysical Theory of Chondrites. Science 271, 1545 – 1552.

Strom, R.G., Malhotra, R., Ito, T., Yoshida, F., Kring, D.A., The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system, Science 309, 1847-1850 (2005).

Tera, F., D.A. Papanastassiou, G.J. Wasserburg, Isotopic evidence for a terminal lunar cataclysm, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 22, 1—21 (1974).

Thiemens, Mark H. (2006) History and Applications of Mass-Independent Isotope Effects. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 34, p.217-262

Tsiganis, K.; Gomes, R.; Morbidelli, A.; Levison, H. F. (2005) origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System. Nature 435, 459-461.

Wolk S.J., Harnden F.R., Flaccomio E., Micela G., Favata F., Shang H., Feigelson E.D. (2005) Stellar activity on the young suns of Orion: COUP observation of K5-7 pre-main-sequence stars. Astrophys. J. Suppl., 160, 423-449.

Woolum D. S. and Cassen P. (1999) Astronomical constraints on nebular temperatures: Implications for planetesimal formation. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 34, 897-907.