Micrometeorite collections: a review and their current status
International audience <jats:p>Micrometeorites are estimated to represent the main part of the present flux of extraterrestrial matter found on the Earth’s surface and provide valuable samples to probe the interplanetary medium. Here, we describe large and representative collections of microme...
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:hal-04575591v1 2024-09-15T17:45:14+00:00 Micrometeorite collections: a review and their current status van Ginneken, Matthias Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J Brownlee, Donald E Debaille, Vinciane Della Corte, Vincenzo Delauche, Lucie Duprat, Jean Engrand, Cecile Folco, Luigi Fries, Marc Gattacceca, Jérôme J.Genge, Matthew Goderis, Steven Gounelle, Matthieu Harvey, Ralph P Jonker, Guido Ruggiu, Lisa Krämer Larsen, Jon Lever, James H Noguchi, Takaak Peterson, Scott Rochette, Pierre Rojas, Julien Rotundi, Alessandra Rudraswami, N.G Suttle, Martin D Taylor, Susan van Maldeghem, Flore Zolensky, Michael Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab) Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR206-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Aix Marseille Université (AMU) 2024 https://hal.science/hal-04575591 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0195 en eng HAL CCSD info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1098/rsta.2023.0195 hal-04575591 https://hal.science/hal-04575591 doi:10.1098/rsta.2023.0195 INSPIRE: 2786782 Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A https://hal.science/hal-04575591 Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A, 2024, 382 (2273), pp.20230195. ⟨10.1098/rsta.2023.0195⟩ [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] [PHYS]Physics [physics] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2024 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0195 2024-08-08T23:33:31Z International audience <jats:p>Micrometeorites are estimated to represent the main part of the present flux of extraterrestrial matter found on the Earth’s surface and provide valuable samples to probe the interplanetary medium. Here, we describe large and representative collections of micrometeorites currently available to the scientific community. These include Antarctic collections from surface ice and snow, as well as glacial sediments from the eroded top of nunataks—summits outcropping from the icesheet—and moraines. Collections extracted from deep-sea sediments (DSS) produced a large number of micrometeorites, in particular, iron-rich cosmic spherules that are rarer in other collections. Collections from the old and stable surface of the Atacama Desert show that finding large numbers of micrometeorites is not restricted to polar regions or DSS. The advent of rooftop collections marks an important step into involving citizen science in the study of micrometeorites, as well as providing potential sampling locations over all latitudes to explore the modern flux. We explore their strengths of the collections to address specific scientific questions and their potential weaknesses. The future of micrometeorite research will involve the finding of large fossil micrometeorite collections and benefit from recent advances in sampling cosmic dust directly from the air.</jats:p> <jats:p>This article is part of the theme issue ‘Dust in the Solar System and beyond’.</jats:p> Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic HAL Sorbonne Université Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 382 2273 |
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International audience <jats:p>Micrometeorites are estimated to represent the main part of the present flux of extraterrestrial matter found on the Earth’s surface and provide valuable samples to probe the interplanetary medium. Here, we describe large and representative collections of micrometeorites currently available to the scientific community. These include Antarctic collections from surface ice and snow, as well as glacial sediments from the eroded top of nunataks—summits outcropping from the icesheet—and moraines. Collections extracted from deep-sea sediments (DSS) produced a large number of micrometeorites, in particular, iron-rich cosmic spherules that are rarer in other collections. Collections from the old and stable surface of the Atacama Desert show that finding large numbers of micrometeorites is not restricted to polar regions or DSS. The advent of rooftop collections marks an important step into involving citizen science in the study of micrometeorites, as well as providing potential sampling locations over all latitudes to explore the modern flux. We explore their strengths of the collections to address specific scientific questions and their potential weaknesses. The future of micrometeorite research will involve the finding of large fossil micrometeorite collections and benefit from recent advances in sampling cosmic dust directly from the air.</jats:p> <jats:p>This article is part of the theme issue ‘Dust in the Solar System and beyond’.</jats:p> |
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Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab) Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de recherche pour le développement IRD : UR206-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Aix Marseille Université (AMU) |
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van Ginneken, Matthias Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J Brownlee, Donald E Debaille, Vinciane Della Corte, Vincenzo Delauche, Lucie Duprat, Jean Engrand, Cecile Folco, Luigi Fries, Marc Gattacceca, Jérôme J.Genge, Matthew Goderis, Steven Gounelle, Matthieu Harvey, Ralph P Jonker, Guido Ruggiu, Lisa Krämer Larsen, Jon Lever, James H Noguchi, Takaak Peterson, Scott Rochette, Pierre Rojas, Julien Rotundi, Alessandra Rudraswami, N.G Suttle, Martin D Taylor, Susan van Maldeghem, Flore Zolensky, Michael |
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van Ginneken, Matthias Wozniakiewicz, Penelope J Brownlee, Donald E Debaille, Vinciane Della Corte, Vincenzo Delauche, Lucie Duprat, Jean Engrand, Cecile Folco, Luigi Fries, Marc Gattacceca, Jérôme J.Genge, Matthew Goderis, Steven Gounelle, Matthieu Harvey, Ralph P Jonker, Guido Ruggiu, Lisa Krämer Larsen, Jon Lever, James H Noguchi, Takaak Peterson, Scott Rochette, Pierre Rojas, Julien Rotundi, Alessandra Rudraswami, N.G Suttle, Martin D Taylor, Susan van Maldeghem, Flore Zolensky, Michael |
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Micrometeorite collections: a review and their current status |
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