Overview & classification

1. Weisberg M.K., T.J. McCoy and A.N. Krot (2006) Systematics and evaluation of meteorite classification. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 19-52. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. An overview of classification, which provides the framework for meteorite research.

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Oxygen isotopes

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Asteroid-meteorite connection

1. Gaffey M.J., E.A. Cloutis, M.S. Kelley and K.L. Reed (2002) Mineralogy of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 183-204. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews how asteroid spectra are obtained and what info about mineralogy can be gleaned from it.

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2. Burbine T.H., T.J. McCoy, A. Meibom, B. Gladman and K. Keil (2002) Meteoritic parent bodies: Their number and identification. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, and R. Binzel), pp. 653-667. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews evidence for the number and identity of meteorite parent bodies and how meteorites are delivered to Earth.

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3. Bell J.F., D.R. Davis, W.K. Hartmann and M.J. Gaffey (1989) Asteroids: The big picture. In Asteroids II (eds.R.P.Binzel, T. Gehrels, and M.S. Matthews), pp. 921-945. Makes case for radial T gradient in nebula corresponding to asteroid belt.

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Chondrules and CAIs

1. Hewins R.H. (1997) Chondrules. In Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 25, 61-83. Reviews evidence pertaining to chondrules and what they might tell us about the solar nebula.

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2. MacPherson G. J., S.B. Simon, A.M. Davis, L. Grossman and A.N. Krot (2005) Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions: major unanswered questions. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (eds. A.N. Krot, E.R.D. Scott, and B. Reipurth), pp. 225-250. ASP Conference Series, vol. 341. Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Francisco. A concise review of what we know and don’t know about CAIs.

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3. Jones R.H., T. Lee, H.C. Connolly Jr., S.G. Love and H. Sheng (2000) Formation of chondrules and CAIs: Theory vs. observation. In Protostars and Planets IV (eds. V. Mannings, A.P. Boss, S.S. Russell), pp. 927-962. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Reviews literature on nebular heat sources needed to account for chondrules & CAIs.

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Volatility and metal fractionation in the solar nebula

1. Davis A. (2006) Volatile evolution and loss. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 295-307. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Summarizes the importance of volatility fractionation in the early solar system.

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2. Wood J. (2005) The chondrite types and their origins. In Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk (eds. A.N. Krot, E.R.D. Scott, and B. Reipurth), pp. 953-971. ASP Conference Series, vol. 341. Astronomical Society of the Pacific: San Francisco. Presents a model for forming chondrites and their constituents, including the nature of chemical fractionations.

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Early timescales

1. Dauphas N. and M. Chaussidon (2011) A perspective from extinct radionuclides on a young stellar object: The sun and its accretion disk. In Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 39, 351-386. A timely review of the principles of short-lived radiochronology and important results.

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2. Lugmair G.W. and A. Shukolyukov (2001) Early solar system events and timescales. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36, 1017-1026. Uses Al-Mg and Mn-Cr systems for CAIs, chondrules, and differentiated meteorites to derive controversial model linking all three.

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Metamorphism and water

1. Huss G.R., A.E. Rubin and J.N. Grossman (2006) Thermal metamorphism in chondrites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 567-586. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Review of thermal metamorphism in relatively dry chondrites.

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2. Brearley A. (2006) The action of water. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II (eds. D.S. Lauretta and H.Y. McSween Jr.), pp. 587-624. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Review of aqueous alteration processes in chondritic meteorites.

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Pre-solar grains and stellar nucleosynthesis

1. Zinner E. (1998) Stellar nucleosynthesis and isotopic composition of presolar grains from primitive meteorites. In Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 26, 147-188. A review of pre-solar grains in meteorites.

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Organic matter in meteorites

1. Gilmour I. (2005) Structural and isotopic analysis of organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites. In Meteorites, Comets, and Planets (ed. A.M. Davis), Ch. 1.10, pp. 269-290. Elsevier: Amsterdam. Reviews highlights in recent studies of indigenous organic matter in carbonaceous chondrites.

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Differentiation

1. McSween H.Y.Jr. (1989) Achondrites and igneous processes on asteroids. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 17, 119-140. A short review of some differentiated stony meteorites.

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2. Wasson J.T. (1985) Iron meteorites: Evidence for and against core origins. In Meteorites- Their Record of Early Solar-system History, Ch. IV, pp.76-99. W.H. Freeman & Co.: New York. Good discussion of planetary heat sources, igneous origin of iron meteorites and pallasites.

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Thermal models of asteroids

1. McSween H.Y., Jr, A. Ghosh, R.E. Grimm, L. Wilson, E.D. Young (2002) Thermal evolution models of asteroids. In Asteroids III (eds. W.F. Bottke, Jr., A. Cellino, P. Paolicchi, R.P. Binzel, pp. 559-571. University of Arizona Press: Tucson.Discusses models to account for thermal metamorphism, aqueous alteration and melting & differentiation of meteorite parent bodies.

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Impacts and collisions

1.Stöffler D., A. Bischoff, V. Buchwald and A.E. Rubin (1988) Shock effects in meteorites. In Meteorites and the Early Solar System (eds. J.F. Kerridge and M.S. Matthews), pp. 165-202. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. Primer on shock processes as recorded by meteorites.

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2. Scott E.R.D. and R.S. Rajan (1981) Metallic minerals, thermal histories and parent bodies of some xenolithic, ordinary chondrite meteorites. Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta 45, 53-67. Argues for collisional disruption and reassembly of ordinary chondrite parent bodies based on metallographic cooling rates

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Basaltic and related meteorites from asteroids, the Moon, and Mars

1. Hutchison R. (2004). Differentiated meteorites II: asteroidal, lunar, and martian basaltic meteorites. In Meteorites—A petrologic, chemical, and isotopic synthesis, Chapter 9, pp. 277-320.Summarizes information about basaltic and other igneous rocks recovered as meteorites from asteroid Vesta, the Moon, and Mars.

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