Scientific Meetings
Space Rocks team members have submitted abstracts for the 86th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Space Rocks UK team members attended the 85th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) in Glasgow, Scotland.
Space Rocks team members attended the virtual, annual Lunar & Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.
Space Rocks team members attended the 82nd annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society (MetSoc) in Sapporo, Japan.
Conference Papers:
Mitchell, J.T., Bell, A.S., Willcocks, F.M., Stephen, N.R. & Luo, B. (2024) A basaltic andesite from Vesta: evidence of a highly fractionated lithology, LPI Contributions 3036, 6180
Daly, L., Suttle, M.D., Lee, M.R., Bridges, J., Hicks, L., Martin, P-E.M.C., Floyd, C.J., Jenkins, L.E., Salge, T., King, A.J., Almeida, N.V., Johnson, D., Trimby, P., Mansour, H., Wadsworth, F.B., Rollinson, G., Genge, M.J., Darling, J., Baogt, P.A.J., White, L.F., Stephen, N.R., Mitchell, J.T., Griffin, S., Willcocks, F.M., Jones, R., Piazolo, S., Einsle, J.F., Macente, A., Hallis, L.J., O'Brien, A., Schofield, P.F., Russell, S.S., Bates, H., Smith, C., Franchi, I., Forman, L.V., Bland, P.A., Westmoreland, D., Anderson, I., Taylor, R., Montgomery, M., Parsons, M., Vasseur, J., van Ginneken, M., Wozniakiewicz, P.J., Burchell, M.J., Hallat, D., Alesbrook, L.S., Spathis, V., Worden, R., Behnsen, J. & Black, K. (2024) CM carbonaceous chondrites: phase heritage of tochilinite-cronnstedtite intergrowths reveal a cabonate precursor, LPI contributions 3036, 6307
Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2024) The orientated pyroxene clouding phases of HED breccia NorthWest Africa 5315, LPI Contributions, 1624
Willcocks, F.M., Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Real science in real time; how Microscopy Live! has introduced planetary science to a non-specialist audience, LPI Contributions 2806, 1950
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) analysis of fayalite veins in polymict eucrite Northwest Africa 6414, 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6150
Willcocks, F.M., Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Real science in real time; how Microscopy Live! has introduced planetary science to a non-specialist audience, LPI Contributions
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., & Stephen, N.R. (2023) Fayalite in polymict eucrite Northwest Africa 6414: evidence of metasomatism and fayalite-bearing magmas on the HED parent body?, LPI Contributions
Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., & Stephen, N.R. (2022), Northwest Africa 6414 classified after 10 years: A complex polymict eucrite of at least nine lithological groups, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6017
Willcocks, F.M., Stephen, N.R., Grimes, S.T., & Mitchell, J.T. (2022), A new terrestrial analogue for Martian volcanism: An unexpected match for the shergottite meteorites, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6018
Hammett, M., Jones, R.H., & Tartese, R. (2022) Formation conditions of B-type Calcium-Aluminium-Inclusions in CV chondrites: a comparison of natural CAIs and experimental analogues, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6085
Greenwood, R.C., Findlay, R., Martins, R., Steele, R.C.J., Rehkamper, M., Shaw, K., Savage, P.S., Morton, E., Franchi, I.A., Elliott, T., Suttle, M.D., King, A.J., Anand, M., Malley, J., Zhao, X., Johnson, D., Liu, M-C., McCain, K. & Stephen, N.R. (2022) Cr, Cd, Si, Te, Ti, Zn and O-isotope composition of the Winchcombe (CM2) meteorite, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6356
Darling, J.R., Staddon, L.G., Tait, K.T., Schwarz, W.H., Sheen, A.I., Herd, C.D.K., Stephen, N.R., Martin, S. & Dunlop, J. (2022) Accessory mineral U-Th-Pb chronology of late Amazonian magmatism recorded by enriched Shergottites, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6360
Staddon, L.G., Darling, J.D., Righter, M., Lapen, T.J., Dunlop, J. & Stephen. N.R. (2022) Petrogenesis and isotope systematics of augite-rich Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 13467, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6455
Suttle, M.D., Daly, L., Jones, R.H., Jenkins, L., Van Ginneken, M., Mitchell, J.T., Bridges, J.C., Hicks, L.J., Johnson, D., Rollinson, G., Taylor, R., Genge, M.J., Schröder, C., Trimby, P., Mansour, H., Piazolo, S., Bonsall, E., Salge, T., Heard, R., Findlay, R., King, A.J., Bates, H.C., Lee, M.R., Stephen, N.R., Willcocks, F.M., Greenwood, R.C., Franchi, I.A., Russell, S.S., Harrison, C.S., Schofield, P.F., Almeida, N.V., Floyd, C., Martin, P-E., Joy, K.H., Wozniakiewicz, P.J., Hallatt, D., Burchell, M.J., Alesbrook, L.S., Spathis, V., Cornwell, L.C. & Dignam, A. (2022), Geological history of the Winchcombe meteorite - a new CM chondrite fall, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6076
Daly, L., Suttle, M.D., Lee, M.R., Bridges, J., Hicks, L., Martin, P-E., Floyd, C., Jenkins, L., Salge, T., King, A.J., Almeida, N., Johnson, D., Trimby, P., Mansour, H., Wadsworth, F., Rollinson, G., Genge, M.J., Darling, J., Bagot, P., White, L.F., Stephen, N.R., Mitchell, J.T., Willcocks, F.M., Jones, R., Piazolo, S., Einsle, J.F., Macente, A., Hallis, L.J., Schofield, P.F., Russell, S.S., Bates, H.C., Smith, C., Franchi, I.A., Bland, P.A., Forman, L.V., Westmoreland, D., Anderson, I., Taylor, R., Mongtgomery, M., Parsons, M., UK Fireball Alliance (2022), A coordinated approach to investigate the heterogeneity of aqueous alteration at the micro-scale in the Winchcombe meteorite, a CM fall, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6262
Martin, P-E.M.C., King, A.J., Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R., Trimby, P., Van Ginneken, M., Salge, T., Almeida, N.V., Willcocks, F.M., Daly, L. & Lee, M.R. (2022), Calcium-aluminium-rich inclusion populations within the Winchcombe CM2 meteorite breccia, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6358
Genge, M.J., Alsebrook, L.S., Almeida, N.V., Bates, H.C., Bland, P.A., Boyd, M.R., Burchell, M.J., Collins, G.S., Cornwell, L.T., Daly, L., Devillepoix, H.A.R., van Ginneken, M., Greshake, A., Hallatt, D., Hamann, C., Hecht, L., Jenkins, L.E., Johnson, D., Jones, R., King, A.J., Mansour, H., McMullan, S., Mitchell, J.T., Rollinson, G., Russell, S.S., Schroder, C., Stephen, N.R., Suttle, M.D., Tandy, J.D., Trimby, P., Sansom, E., Spathis, V., Willcocks, F.M., Wozniakiewicz, P.J. (2022), The fusion crust of the Winchcombe meteorite: Vigorous degassing during atmospheric entry, 85th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, #6345
Mitchell, J.T., Tomkins A.G., Wilson, N.C., Howard, D.L., Fang, X. & Stephen, N.R. (2022) A single chondrule preserved in a petrolographic thin section of Howardite Dhofar 018, LPI Contributions ***, 1184
Staddon, L.G., Darling, J.R., Dunlop, J. & Stephen, N.R. (2022) North West Africa (NWA) 13467: A new augite-rich Shergottite? LPI Conributions ***, 2212
Willcocks, F., Grimes, S.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2021) Comparative Planetology of the Inner Solar System; Using Flood Basalts on the Moon (Lunar Maria), Mars (Tharsis and Elysium) and Earth to Investigate the Magmatic Evolution of Our Solar System, LPI Contributions 2609, 6061
Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R. & Tomkins, A.G. (2021) Sampling an Impact Melt Sheet with Unusual Diogenite Northwest Africa 5480, LPI Contributions 2609, 6008
Mitchell, J.T., Tomkins, A.G., Newton, C. & Johnson, T.E. (2021), The evolving crust of 4 Vesta from compositional and thermal modelling, 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, #1576
Staddon, L.G., Darling, J.R., Schwarz, W.H., Stephen, N.R., Schuindt, S., Dunlop, J. & Tait, K.T. (2021) Combined microstructural analysis and in-situ U-Pb chronology of baddeleyite within shergottites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7257, NWA 8679 and Zagami, EGU General Assembly, EGU21-10792
Staddon, L.G., Darling, J.R., Schwarz, W.H., Stephen, N.R., Schuindt, S., Dunlop, J. & Tait, K.T. (2021) Microstructurally Constrained Geochronology of Baddeleyite Within Shergottites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7257, NWA 8679, and Zagami, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference 2548, 1875
Ross, A.J., Stephen, N.R. & Downes, H. (2021) Identification of Coexisting Ortho-and Clinopyroxene by Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Chemically Homogenous" Enstatite" Grains in Almahata Sitta Ureilites (2021) Lunar & Planetary Science Conference 2548, 2384
Brand, H.E.A., Stephen, N.R. & Martin, D.J.P. (2020) Bulk and Thermal Properties of Planetary Analogue Simulants and Martian Meteorites, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, ****
Staddon, L.G., Darling, Stephen, N.R., Dunlop, J. & Tait, K.T. (2020) Baddeleyite Microstructures in Variably Shocked Martian Meteorites: An Opportunity to Link Shock Barometry and Robust Geochronology, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, ****
Stephen, N.R., Brand, H.E.A. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019) Meteorites of the Nullarbor Plain; Recent Recovery and Classification Efforts, LPI Contributions 2157, 6136
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019), Compositional diversity of diogenites: variable fO2 and post-eucritic magmatism, LPI Contributions 2157, 6065
Brand, H.E.A., Langendam, A.D., Whitworth, A.J., Alkemade, A.L., Mitchell, J.T., Davis, A., Stephen, N.R. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019) Meteorites on the Nullarbor Plain, Insights from Synchrotron Powder Diffraction, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, ****
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2019), Constraining ejecta blanket conditions of Dhofar 018 form a single pristine chondrule, SSERVI Australia
Stephen, N.R. (2018) Linking Martian Breccias Northwest Africa 11220 and Northwest Africa 7034 to the Martian Meteorite Family; Revisiting the Martian Nomenclature, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, ****
Mitchell, J.T. & Tomkins, A.G. (2018), On the origin of olivine diogenites and diogenites: compositional diversity linked to variable fO2, 22nd Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, #IMA2018-1393
Mitchell, J.T. & Stephen, N.R. (2016) Revisiting NWA 3141, 8266 and 8594; Two Eucrites and a Howardite?, LPI Contributions 1921, 79, 6224
Stephen, N.R. (2016) Spatially Resolved Mid-IR Spectra from Meteorites; Linking Composition, Crystallographic Orientation and Spectra on the Micro-Scale, LPI Contributions 1921, 79, 6223
Stephen, N.R. & Dijkstra, A.D. (2015) Constraining Pigeonite on Mars; Further Developments in Resolving Zoned Pyroxenes Within the Martian Meteorites, LPI Contributions 1856, 78, 5394
Michalski, J., Cuadros, J., Dekov, V., Dyar, M.D., Bishop, J.L. & Stephen, N.R. (2014) Constraints on the crystal chemistry of Martian Fe/Mr-rich smectitic clays; links to global alteration trends and protoliths, GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stephen, N.R., Schofield, P.F. & Berry, A.J. (2014) Mid-IR mapping of Martian meteorites with 8 micron spatial resolution, LPI Contributions 1800, 77, 5185
Stephen, N.R., Schofield, P.F., Berry, A.J. & Donaldson, P. (2014) Mid-IR Mapping of Martian Meteorites; Spatially Resolved Mineral Spectra from a Synchrotron Source, LPI Contributions 1777, 1378
Stephen, N.R. & Ross, A.J. (2014) Examining the Petrology of" Martian" Meteorite NWA 7034; A Polymict Fragmental Breccia, LPI Contributions 1777, 2924
Stephen, N.R., Genge, M.J., Russell, S.S. & Schofield, P.F. (2013) Turning Tissint Inside Out; Searching for its Launch Pair (s) from Mars, LPI Contributions 1719, 2131
Stephen, N.R., Genge, M.J. & Russell, S.S. (2012) The Tissint Meteorite: A Pristine and Unique Sample of the Martian Sub-Surface, Meteoritics & Planetary Science Supplement, 75, 5234
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K. & Genge, M.J. (2012) The effect of composition and zoning on infra-red spectra of the Martian silicate minerals, Lunar & Planetary Science Conference, ****
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K., Bland, P., Berlin, J., Salge, T. & Goran, D. (2011) EBSD analysis of the shergottite meteorites: New developments within the technique and their implication on what we know about the preferred orientation of Martian minerals, AGU Fall Meeting, P31B-1709
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K. & Bland, P. (2011) Extracting pyroxene mineral spectra from Martian meteorites, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46, A223
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K., Bland, P. & Hamilton, V.E. (2010) Martian Pyroxenes in the Shergottite Meteorites; Zagami, SAU005, DAG476 and EETA79001, AGU Fall Meeting, P51B-1423
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K., Bland, P., Hamilton, V.E., Mariani, E. & Prior, D.J. (2010) Preferred Orientation Relationships of Olivine and Pyroxene in the Shergottite Martian Meteorites, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 45, A196
Stephen, N.R., Benedix, G.K., Bland, P., Howard, K.T. & Hamilton, V.E. (2010) Modal mineralogy of the Martian meteorite Zagami, LPI Contributions 1553, 2367