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Changela HG, Kebukawa Y, Petera L, Ferus M, Chatzitheodoridis E, Nejdl L, Nebel R, Protiva V, Krepelka P, Moravcova J, Holbova R, Hlavenkova Z, Samoril T, Bridges JC, Yamashita S, Takahashi Y, Yada T, Nakato A, Sobotkova K, Tesarova H, Zapotok D. The evolution of organic material on Asteroid 162173 Ryugu and its delivery to Earth. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6165. [PMID: 39039074 PMCID: PMC11263614 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50004-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024] Open
Abstract
The recent return of samples from asteroid 162173 Ryugu provides a first insight into early Solar System prebiotic evolution from known planetary bodies. Ryugu's samples are CI chondrite-like, rich in water and organic material, and primarily composed of phyllosilicate. This phyllosilicate surrounds micron to submicron macromolecular organic particles known as insoluble organic matter. Using advanced microscopy techniques on Hayabusa-2 samples, we find that aqueous alteration on Ryugu produced organic particles richer in aromatics compared to less altered carbonaceous chondrites. This challenges the view that aromatic-rich organic matter formed pre-accretion. Additionally, widespread diffuse organic material occurs in phyllosilicate more aliphatic-, carboxylic-rich, and aromatic-poor than the discrete organic particles, likely preserving the soluble organic material. Some organic particles evolved to encapsulate phyllosilicate, indicating that aqueous alteration on Ryugu led to the containment of soluble organic matter within these particles. Earth therefore has been, and continues to be, delivered micron-sized polymeric organic objects containing biologically relevant molecules.
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- H G Changela
- Department of Spectroscopy, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
- Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Life Science, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan
- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Spectroscopy, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
- Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Spectroscopy, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University, Brno, Czechia
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- Department of Spectroscopy, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Spectroscopy, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
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- Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czechia
- TESCAN GROUP a.s., Brno, Czechia
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- Space Park Leicester, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Astromaterials Science Research Group, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Astromaterials Science Research Group, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kanagawa, Japan
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van Kooten E, Zhao X, Franchi I, Tung PY, Fairclough S, Walmsley J, Onyett I, Schiller M, Bizzarro M. The nucleosynthetic fingerprint of the outermost protoplanetary disk and early Solar System dynamics. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadp1613. [PMID: 38875339 PMCID: PMC11177941 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp1613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 05/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/16/2024]
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Knowledge of the nucleosynthetic isotope composition of the outermost protoplanetary disk is critical to understand the formation and early dynamical evolution of the Solar System. We report the discovery of outer disk material preserved in a pristine meteorite based on its chemical composition, organic-rich petrology, and 15N-rich, deuterium-rich, and 16O-poor isotope signatures. We infer that this outer disk material originated in the comet-forming region. The nucleosynthetic Fe, Mg, Si, and Cr compositions of this material reveal that, contrary to current belief, the isotope signature of the comet-forming region is ubiquitous among outer Solar System bodies, possibly reflecting an important planetary building block in the outer Solar System. This nucleosynthetic component represents fresh material added to the outer disk by late accretion streamers connected to the ambient molecular cloud. Our results show that most Solar System carbonaceous asteroids accreted material from the comet-forming region, a signature lacking in the terrestrial planet region.
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- Elishevah van Kooten
- Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- School of Physical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
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- School of Physical Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, CB3 0FS Cambridge, UK
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- Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
- Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université Paris Cité, 1 Rue Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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Tsuchiyama A, Miyake A, Okuzumi S, Kitayama A, Kawano J, Uesugi K, Takeuchi A, Nakano T, Zolensky M. Discovery of primitive CO 2-bearing fluid in an aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrite. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:7/17/eabg9707. [PMID: 33883146 PMCID: PMC8059924 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg9707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Water is abundant as solid ice in the solar system and plays important roles in its evolution. Water is preserved in carbonaceous chondrites as hydroxyl and/or H2O molecules in hydrous minerals, but has not been found as liquid. To uncover such liquid, we performed synchrotron-based x-ray computed nanotomography and transmission electron microscopy with a cryo-stage of the aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrite Sutter's Mill. We discovered CO2-bearing fluid (CO2/H2O > ~0.15) in a nanosized inclusion incorporated into a calcite crystal, appearing as CO2 ice and/or CO2 hydrate at 173 K. This is direct evidence of dynamic evolution of the solar system, requiring the Sutter's Mill's parent body to have formed outside the CO2 snow line and later transportation to the inner solar system because of Jupiter's orbital instability.
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- Akira Tsuchiyama
- Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan.
- CAS Key Laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Mineral Physics and Materials, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 511 Kehua Street, Wushan, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510640, China
- CAS Center for Excellence in Deep Earth Science, 511 Kehua Street, Wushan, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-10 Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan
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- Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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Chan QHS, Stroud R, Martins Z, Yabuta H. Concerns of Organic Contamination for Sample Return Space Missions. SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS 2020; 216:56. [PMID: 32624626 PMCID: PMC7319412 DOI: 10.1007/s11214-020-00678-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Analysis of organic matter has been one of the major motivations behind solar system exploration missions. It addresses questions related to the organic inventory of our solar system and its implication for the origin of life on Earth. Sample return missions aim at returning scientifically valuable samples from target celestial bodies to Earth. By analysing the samples with the use of state-of-the-art analytical techniques in laboratories here on Earth, researchers can address extremely complicated aspects of extra-terrestrial organic matter. This level of detailed sample characterisation provides the range and depth in organic analysis that are restricted in spacecraft-based exploration missions, due to the limitations of the on-board in-situ instrumentation capabilities. So far, there are four completed and in-process sample return missions with an explicit mandate to collect organic matter: Stardust and OSIRIS-REx missions of NASA, and Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 missions of JAXA. Regardless of the target body, all sample return missions dedicate to minimise terrestrial organic contamination of the returned samples, by applying various degrees or strategies of organic contamination mitigation methods. Despite the dedicated efforts in the design and execution of contamination control, it is impossible to completely eliminate sources of organic contamination. This paper aims at providing an overview of the successes and lessons learned with regards to the identification of indigenous organic matter of the returned samples vs terrestrial contamination.
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- Queenie Hoi Shan Chan
- Planetary and Space Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK
- Present Address: Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham Surrey, TW20 0EX UK
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- Code 6360, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA
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- Centro de Química Estrutural, Departamento de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Systems Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Hiroshima, 739-8526 Japan
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Gu L, Wang N, Tang X, Changela HG. Application of FIB-SEM Techniques for the Advanced Characterization of Earth and Planetary Materials. SCANNING 2020; 2020:8406917. [PMID: 32774588 PMCID: PMC7397446 DOI: 10.1155/2020/8406917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Advanced microanalytical techniques such as high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), atom probe tomography (APT), and synchrotron-based scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) enable one to characterize the structure and chemical and isotopic compositions of natural materials down towards the atomic scale. Dual focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM) is a powerful tool for site-specific sample preparation and subsequent analysis by TEM, APT, and STXM to the highest energy and spatial resolutions. FIB-SEM also works as a stand-alone technique for three-dimensional (3D) tomography. In this review, we will outline the principles and challenges when using FIB-SEM for the advanced characterization of natural materials in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. More specifically, we aim to highlight the state-of-the-art applications of FIB-SEM using examples including (a) traditional FIB ultrathin sample preparation of small particles in the study of space weathering of lunar soil grains, (b) migration of Pb isotopes in zircons by FIB-based APT, (c) coordinated synchrotron-based STXM characterization of extraterrestrial organic material in carbonaceous chondrite, and finally (d) FIB-based 3D tomography of oil shale pores by slice and view methods. Dual beam FIB-SEM is a powerful analytical platform, the scope of which, for technological development and adaptation, is vast and exciting in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. For example, dual beam FIB-SEM will be a vital technique for the characterization of fine-grained asteroid and lunar samples returned to the Earth in the near future.
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- Lixin Gu
- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10029, China
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- Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10029, China
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- Key Laboratory of Earth and Planetary Physics, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10029, China
- Qian Xuesen Laboratory of Space Technology, Chinese Academy of Space Technology, Beijing, China
- Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, USA
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