Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous Chondrite Regolith Breccia

Author:

Jenniskens Peter12,Fries Marc D.3,Yin Qing-Zhu4,Zolensky Michael5,Krot Alexander N.6,Sandford Scott A.2,Sears Derek2,Beauford Robert7,Ebel Denton S.8,Friedrich Jon M.89,Nagashima Kazuhide6,Wimpenny Josh4,Yamakawa Akane4,Nishiizumi Kunihiko10,Hamajima Yasunori11,Caffee Marc W.12,Welten Kees C.10,Laubenstein Matthias13,Davis Andrew M.1415,Simon Steven B.14,Heck Philipp R.1415,Young Edward D.16,Kohl Issaku E.17,Thiemens Mark H.18,Nunn Morgan H.18,Mikouchi Takashi19,Hagiya Kenji20,Ohsumi Kazumasa21,Cahill Thomas A.22,Lawton Jonathan A.22,Barnes David22,Steele Andrew23,Rochette Pierre24,Verosub Kenneth L.4,Gattacceca Jérôme24,Cooper George2,Glavin Daniel P.25,Burton Aaron S.2526,Dworkin Jason P.25,Elsila Jamie E.25,Pizzarello Sandra27,Ogliore Ryan6,Schmitt-Kopplin Phillipe2829,Harir Mourad28,Hertkorn Norbert28,Verchovsky Alexander30,Grady Monica30,Nagao Keisuke31,Okazaki Ryuji32,Takechi Hiroyuki32,Hiroi Takahiro33,Smith Ken34,Silber Elizabeth A.35,Brown Peter G.35,Albers Jim1,Klotz Doug36,Hankey Mike37,Matson Robert38,Fries Jeffrey A.39,Walker Richard J.40,Puchtel Igor40,Lee Cin-Ty A.41,Erdman Monica E.41,Eppich Gary R.42,Roeske Sarah4,Gabelica Zelimir43,Lerche Michael44,Nuevo Michel12,Girten Beverly2,Worden Simon P.2,

Affiliation:

1. SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

2. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.

3. Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ 85719–2395, USA.

4. Department of Geology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

5. Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.

6. Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology and Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

7. Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, University of Arkansas, AR 72701, USA.

8. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.

9. Department of Chemistry, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, USA.

10. Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720–7450, USA.

11. Low Level Radioactivity Laboratory, Kanazawa University, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1224, Japan.

12. Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

13. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy.

14. Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Enrico Fermi Institute and Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

15. Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605, USA.

16. Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1567, USA.

17. Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.

18. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.

19. Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

20. Graduate School of Life Science, University Hyogo, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan.

21. Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo-cho, Hyogo 679-5189, Japan.

22. Department of Physics, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA

23. Geophysics Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015, USA.

24. Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement, CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université, F-13545 Aix-en-Provence, France.

25. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

26. Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

27. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.

28. Helmholtz Zentrum München, D-85764 München, Germany.

29. Analytische Lebensmittel Chemie, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany.

30. Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK.

31. Geochemical Research Center, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

32. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan.

33. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

34. Nevada Seismological Laboratory, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA.

35. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada.

36. Space Science for Schools, Incline Village, NV 89451, USA.

37. American Meteor Society, Geneseo, NY 14454, USA.

38. Science Applications International Corporation, Seal Beach, CA 90740, USA.

39. U.S. Air Force Weather Agency, 1st Weather Group, Offutt Air Force Base, NE 68113, USA.

40. Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

41. Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.

42. Glenn Seaborg Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA.

43. Université de Haute Alsace, F-68093 Mulhouse, France.

44. McClellan Nuclear Research Center, University of California at Davis, McClellan, CA 95652, USA.

Abstract

The Meteor That Fell to Earth In April 2012, a meteor was witnessed over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Jenniskens et al. (p. 1583 ) used a combination of photographic and video images of the fireball coupled with Doppler weather radar images to facilitate the rapid recovery of meteorite fragments. A comprehensive analysis of some of these fragments shows that the Sutter's Mill meteorite represents a new type of carbonaceous chondrite, a rare and primitive class of meteorites that contain clues to the origin and evolution of primitive materials in the solar system. The unexpected and complex nature of the fragments suggests that the surfaces of C-class asteroids, the presumed parent bodies of carbonaceous chondrites, are more complex than previously assumed.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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