Radar-enabled recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite regolith breccia.
Jenniskens P, Fries MD, Yin QZ, Zolensky M, Krot AN, Sandford SA, Sears D, Beauford R, Ebel DS, Friedrich JM, Nagashima K, Wimpenny J, Yamakawa A, Nishiizumi K, Hamajima Y, Caffee MW, Welten KC, Laubenstein M, Davis AM, Simon SB, Heck PR, Young ED, Kohl IE, Thiemens MH, Nunn MH, Mikouchi T, Hagiya K, Ohsumi K, Cahill TA, Lawton JA, Barnes D, Steele A, Rochette P, Verosub KL, Gattacceca J, Cooper G, Glavin DP, Burton AS, Dworkin JP, Elsila JE, Pizzarello S, Ogliore R, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Harir M, Hertkorn N, Verchovsky A, Grady M, Nagao K, Okazaki R, Takechi H, Hiroi T, Smith K, Silber EA, Brown PG, Albers J, Klotz D, Hankey M, Matson R, Fries JA, Walker RJ, Puchtel I, Lee CT, Erdman ME, Eppich GR, Roeske S, Gabelica Z, Lerche M, Nuevo M, Girten B, Worden SP; Sutter’s Mill Meteorite Consortium.
Jenniskens P, et al.
Science. 2012 Dec 21;338(6114):1583-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1227163.
Science. 2012.
PMID: 23258889
The recovered meteorites survived a record high-speed entry of 28.6 kilometers per second from an orbit close to that of Jupiter-family comets (Tisserand's parameter = 2.8 0.3). Sutter's Mill is a regolith breccia composed of CM (Mighei)-type carbonaceous chondrite and hig …
The recovered meteorites survived a record high-speed entry of 28.6 kilometers per second from an orbit close to that of Jupiter-family come …
