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12 - Planetesimals

Leftover Planetary Building Blocks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Harry McSween, Jr  and
Gary Huss
Harry McSween, Jr
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Gary Huss
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
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Classification, physical properties, orbits, evolution of asteroids, comets, and KBOs

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asteroidscometsKBOsphysical propertiesorbital distributionsspectra and taxonomylinks to samplesheatingcollisions and disruptions
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Cosmochemistry , pp. 298 - 322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Suggestions for Further Reading

The University of Arizona Press has published a number of books on asteroids, and these two are the most current. Each is a wonderful resource on the properties, evolution, and exploration of asteroids.

Bottke, W. F., Cellino, A., Paolicchi, P., and Binzel, R. P., editors (2002) Asteroids III. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 785 pp.Google Scholar
Michel, P., Demeo, F. E., and Bottke, W. F., editors (2015) Asteroids IV. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 895 pp.Google Scholar
Bradley, J. P. (2014) Early solar nebula particles - interplanetary dust particles. In Treatise on Geochemistry, 2nd edition, Vol. 1: Meteorites and Cosmochemical Processes, Davis, A. M., editor, pp. 287–308, Elsevier, Oxford. This review provides an excellent summary of the voluminous literature that describes and interprets IDPs.Google Scholar
Brearley, A. J. (2006) The action of water. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II, Lauretta, D. S., and McSween, H. Y., editors, pp. 587–624, University of Arizona Press, Tucson. The best available review of aqueous alteration processes and materials in chondritic meteorites.Google Scholar
Brownlee, D. E. (2014) Comets. In Treatise on Geochemistry, 2nd edition, Vol. 2. Planets, Asteroids, Comets and the Solar System, Davis, A. M., editor, pp. 335–363, Elsevier, Oxford. A comprehensive and thoughtful review of what is known about the composition and structure of comets and the bodies within the belts that supply comets.Google Scholar
Asphaug, E., Agnor, C. B., and Williams, Q. (2006) Hit-and-run planetary collisions. Nature, 439, 155–160.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bottke, W. F., Nesvorny, D., Grimm, R. E., et al. (2006) Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region. Nature, 439, 821–824.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bottke, W. F., Broz, M., O’Brien, D. P., et al. (2015) The collisional evolution of the Main asteroid belt. In Asteroids IV, Michel, P., Demeo, F. E., and Bottke, W. F., editors, pp. 701–724, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, M. E. (2002) The compositions of Kuiper Belt objects. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 40, 467–494.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Browning, L. B., McSween, H. Y., and Zolensky, M. E. (1996) Correlated alteration effects in CM carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 2621–2633.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brownlee, D., and 181 coauthors (2006) Comet 81P/Wild2 under a microscope. Science, 314, 1711–1716.Google Scholar
Brownlee, D., Joswiak, D., and Matrajt, G. (2012) Overview of the rocky component of Wild2 comet samples: Insights into the early solar system, relationship with meteoritic materials and the differences between comets and asteroids. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 47, 453–470.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bus, S. J., Vilas, F., and Barrucci, M. A. (2002) Visible-wavelength spectroscopy of asteroids. In Asteroids III, Bottke, W. F., Cellino, A., Paolicchi, P., and Binzel, R. P., editors, pp. 169–182, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.Google Scholar
Carry, B. (2012) Density of asteroids. Planetary & Space Science, 73, 98–118.Google Scholar
Castillo-Rogez, J. C., and McCord, T. B. (2010) Ceres’ evolution and present state constrained by shape data. Icarus, 205, 443–459.Google Scholar
Ciesla, F. J. (2007) Outward transport of high-temperature materials around the midplane of the solar nebula. Science, 318, 613–615.Google Scholar
Clark, B. E., Hapke, B., Pieters, C., and Britt, D. (2002) Asteroid space weathering and regolith evolution. In Asteroids III, Bottke, W. F., Cellino, A., Paolicchi, P. and Binzel, R. P., editors, pp. 585–602, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clayton, R. N., and Mayeda, T. K. (1984) The oxygen isotope record in Murchison and other carbonaceous chondrites. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 67, 151–166.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clayton, R. N., and Mayeda, T. K. (1999) Oxygen isotope studies of carbonaceous chondrites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 63, 2089–2104.Google Scholar
Crovisier, J., et al. (2000) The thermal infrared spectra of comets Hale-Bopp and 103P/Hartley 2 observed with the Infrared Space Observatory. In Thermal Emission Spectroscopy and Analysis of Dust, Disks, and Regoliths, ASP Conference 196, Sitko, M. L., Sprague, A. L., and Lynch, D. K., editors, pp. 109–117, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco.Google Scholar
DeMeo, F. E., Binzel, R. P., Silvan, S. M., and Bus, S. J. (2009) An extension of the Bus asteroid taxonomy into the near-infrared. Icarus, 202, 160–180.Google Scholar
DeMeo, F. E., Alexander, C. M. O’D., Walsh, K. J., et al. (2015) The compositional structure of the asteroid belt. In Asteroids IV, Michel, P., Demeo, F. E., and Bottke, W. F., editors, pp. 13–42, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.Google Scholar
De Sanctis, M. C., Ammannito, E., Marchi, S., et al. (2015) Ammoniated phyllosilicates with a likely outer solar system origin on (1) Ceres. Nature, 528, 241–245.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Dunn, T. L., Cressey, G., McSween, H. Y., and McCoy, T. J. (2010) Analysis of ordinary chondrites using powder X-ray diffraction: 1. Modal mineral abundances. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45, 123–134.Google Scholar
Flynn, G. J., Consolmagno, G. J., Brown, P., and Macke, R. J. (2018) Physical properties of the stone meteorites: Implications for the properties of their parent bodies. Chemie der Erde, 78, 269–298.Google Scholar
Fornasier, S., Lantz, C., Barucci, M. A., and Lazzarin, M. (2014) Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: Results from visible spectroscopy. Icarus, 233, 163–178.Google Scholar
Ghosh, A., Weidenschilling, S. J., McSween, H. Y., and Rubin, A. (2006) Asteroid heating and thermal stratification of the asteroid belt. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II, Lauretta, D. S., and McSween, H. Y., editors, pp. 555–566, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gounelle, M., Spurny, P., and Bland, P. A. (2006) The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Orgueil meteorite from historical records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 41, 135–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greenwood, R. C., Burbine, T. H., Miller, M. F., and Franchi, I. A. (2017) Melting and differentiation of early-formed asteroids: The perspective from high precision oxygen isotope studies. Chemie der Erde, 77, 1–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grimm, R. E., and McSween, H. Y. (1989) Water and the thermal evolution of carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies. Icarus, 82, 244–280.Google Scholar
Grimm, R. E., and McSween, H. Y. (1993) Heliocentric zoning of the asteroid belt by aluminum-26 heating. Science, 259, 653–655.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grundy, W. M., Bird, M. K., Britt, D. T., et al. (2020) Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth. Science, 367, 999.Google Scholar
Haack, H., Rasmussen, K. L., and Warren, P. H. (1990) Effects of regolith/megaregolith insulation on the cooling histories of differentiated asteroids. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 5111–5124.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hanner, M. S., and Bradley, J. P. (2003) Composition and mineralogy of comet dust. In Comets II, Festou, M., Keller, H. U., and Weaver, H. A., editors, pp. 555–564, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.Google Scholar
Herbert, F., and Sonnett, C. P. (1980) Electromagnetic inductive heating of the asteroids and moon as evidence bearing on the primordial solar wind. In The Ancient Sun, Pepin, R. O., Eddy, J. A., and Merrill, R. B., editors, pp. 563–576, Pergamon, New York.Google Scholar
Howard, K. T., Alexander, C. M. O’D., Schrader, D. L., and Dyl, K. A. (2015) Classification of hydrous meteorites (CR, CM and C2 ungrouped) by phyllosilicate fraction: PSD-SRD modal mineralogy and planetesimal environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 149, 206–222.Google Scholar
Hughes, A. L. H., and Armitage, P. J. (2010) Particle transport in evolving protoplanetary disks: Implications for results from Stardust. Astrophysical Journal, 719, 1633–1653.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ishii, H. A., Bradley, J. P., Dai, Z. R., et al. (2008) Comparison of comet 81P/Wild2 dust with interplanetary dust from comets. Science, 319, 447–450.Google Scholar
Jones, T. D., Lebofsky, L. A., Lewis, J. S., and Marley, M. S. (1990) The composition and origin of the C, P, and D asteroids: Water as a tracer of thermal evolution in the outer belt. Icarus, 88, 172–192.Google Scholar
Joswiak, D. J., Brownlee, D. E., Matrajt, G., et al. (2009) Kosmochloric Ca-rich pyroxenes and FeO-rich olivines (kool grains) and associated phases in Stardust tracks and chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles: Possible precursors to FeO-rich type II chondrules in ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44, 1561–1588.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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King, A. J., Schofield, P. E., Howard, K. T., and Russell, S. S. (2015) Modal mineralogy of CI and CI-like chondrites by X-ray diffraction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 165, 148–160.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lauretta, D. S., Bartels, A. E., Barucci, M. A., et al. (2014) The OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50, 834–849.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, M. P., Dygert, N., Ren, J., et al. (2020) Evidence for early fragmentation-reassembly of ordinary chondrite (H, L, and LL) parent bodies from REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 290, 366–390.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Ciesla, F. J. (2007) Outward transport of high-temperature materials around the midplane of the solar nebula. Science, 318, 613–615.Google Scholar
Clark, B. E., Hapke, B., Pieters, C., and Britt, D. (2002) Asteroid space weathering and regolith evolution. In Asteroids III, Bottke, W. F., Cellino, A., Paolicchi, P. and Binzel, R. P., editors, pp. 585–602, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Fornasier, S., Lantz, C., Barucci, M. A., and Lazzarin, M. (2014) Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: Results from visible spectroscopy. Icarus, 233, 163–178.Google Scholar
Ghosh, A., Weidenschilling, S. J., McSween, H. Y., and Rubin, A. (2006) Asteroid heating and thermal stratification of the asteroid belt. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II, Lauretta, D. S., and McSween, H. Y., editors, pp. 555–566, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gounelle, M., Spurny, P., and Bland, P. A. (2006) The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Orgueil meteorite from historical records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 41, 135–150.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Greenwood, R. C., Burbine, T. H., Miller, M. F., and Franchi, I. A. (2017) Melting and differentiation of early-formed asteroids: The perspective from high precision oxygen isotope studies. Chemie der Erde, 77, 1–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Grimm, R. E., and McSween, H. Y. (1993) Heliocentric zoning of the asteroid belt by aluminum-26 heating. Science, 259, 653–655.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grundy, W. M., Bird, M. K., Britt, D. T., et al. (2020) Color, composition, and thermal environment of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth. Science, 367, 999.Google Scholar
Haack, H., Rasmussen, K. L., and Warren, P. H. (1990) Effects of regolith/megaregolith insulation on the cooling histories of differentiated asteroids. Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 5111–5124.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hanner, M. S., and Bradley, J. P. (2003) Composition and mineralogy of comet dust. In Comets II, Festou, M., Keller, H. U., and Weaver, H. A., editors, pp. 555–564, University of Arizona Press, Tucson.Google Scholar
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Howard, K. T., Alexander, C. M. O’D., Schrader, D. L., and Dyl, K. A. (2015) Classification of hydrous meteorites (CR, CM and C2 ungrouped) by phyllosilicate fraction: PSD-SRD modal mineralogy and planetesimal environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 149, 206–222.Google Scholar
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Ishii, H. A., Bradley, J. P., Dai, Z. R., et al. (2008) Comparison of comet 81P/Wild2 dust with interplanetary dust from comets. Science, 319, 447–450.Google Scholar
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Joswiak, D. J., Brownlee, D. E., Matrajt, G., et al. (2009) Kosmochloric Ca-rich pyroxenes and FeO-rich olivines (kool grains) and associated phases in Stardust tracks and chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles: Possible precursors to FeO-rich type II chondrules in ordinary chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 44, 1561–1588.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Keil, K., Stoffler, D., Love, S. G., and Scott, E. R. D. (1997) Constraints on the role of impact heating and melting in asteroids. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 32, 349–363.Google Scholar
King, A. J., Schofield, P. E., Howard, K. T., and Russell, S. S. (2015) Modal mineralogy of CI and CI-like chondrites by X-ray diffraction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 165, 148–160.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lauretta, D. S., Bartels, A. E., Barucci, M. A., et al. (2014) The OSIRIS-REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50, 834–849.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lucas, M. P., Dygert, N., Ren, J., et al. (2020) Evidence for early fragmentation-reassembly of ordinary chondrite (H, L, and LL) parent bodies from REE-in-two-pyroxene thermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 290, 366–390.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mandler, B. E., and Elkins-Tanton, L. T. (2013) The origin of eucrites, diogenites, and olivine diogenites: Magma ocean crystallization and shallow magma chamber processes on Vesta. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 48, 2333–2349.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marty, B., Palma, R. L., Pepin, R. O., et al. (2008) Helium and neon abundances and compositions in cometary matter. Science, 319, 75–78.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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