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List of works by Larry R. Nittler

A Low O/Si Ratio on the Surface of Mercury: Evidence for Silicon Smelting?

Abundances of presolar silicon carbide grains in primitive meteorites determined by NanoSIMS

scholarly article by Jemma Davidson et al published August 2014 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Abundant presolar grains and primordial organics preserved in carbon-rich exogenous clasts in asteroid Ryugu

scientific article published on 14 July 2023

Aluminum abundance on the surface of Mercury: Application of a new background-reduction technique for the analysis of gamma-ray spectroscopy data

scholarly article

Aluminum‐, Calcium‐ and Titanium‐rich Oxide Stardust in Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites ⬇️

scholarly article by Larry R. Nittler et al published August 2008 in The Astrophysical Journal

Analysis of MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer data from the Mercury flybys

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Astronomy. Nuclear fossils in stardust

scientific article published in January 2004

Astrophysics with Presolar Stardust

scientific article

Author Correction: Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth’s volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis

scientific article published on 14 March 2023

Carbonate record of temporal change in oxygen fugacity and gaseous species in asteroid Ryugu

scientific article published on 10 July 2023

Chemical heterogeneity on Mercury's surface revealed by the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer

scholarly article

Chlorine on the surface of Mercury: MESSENGER gamma-ray measurements and implications for the planet’s formation and evolution

scholarly article

Citation for the 2021 H.C. Urey Award to Sachiko Amari

scientific article published in 2021

Cluster Analysis of Presolar Silicon Carbide Grains: Evaluation of Their Classification and Astrophysical Implications

scientific article published on 29 January 2021

Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope

scientific article

Common Occurrence of Explosive Hydrogen Burning in Type II Supernovae

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Constraints on the abundance of carbon in near-surface materials on Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

Contribution of Ryugu-like material to Earth’s volatile inventory by Cu and Zn isotopic analysis

scholarly article

Coordinated EDX and micro-Raman analysis of presolar silicon carbide: A novel, nondestructive method to identify rare subgroup SiC

scholarly article

Coordinated Microanalyses of Seven Particles of Probable Interstellar Origin from the Stardust Mission

Corrigendum to “Mineralogy and petrology of Dominion Range 08006: A very primitive CO3 carbonaceous chondrite” [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 265 (2019) 259–278]

scientific article published in August 2021

Designing miniature x-ray optics for the SmallSat lunar science mission concept CubeX

Determination of the Effects of Hydrothermal Alteration on Silicate Stardust with Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and Transmission Electron Microscopy

Determining the Elemental and Isotopic Composition of the Presolar Nebula from Genesis Data Analysis: The Case of Oxygen ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Editorial

Enhanced sodium abundance in Mercury’s north polar region revealed by the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

scholarly article

Erratum: “Aluminum‐, Calcium‐ and Titanium‐rich Oxide Stardust in Ordinary Chondrite Meteorites” (ApJ, 682, 1450 [2008])

scholarly article by Larry R. Nittler et al published 20 October 2008 in The Astrophysical Journal

Establishing a molecular relationship between chondritic and cometary organic solids

scientific article published on 4 April 2011

Evaluating an impact origin for Mercury's high-magnesium region ⬇️

scholarly article by Elizabeth A. Frank et al published March 2017 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

Evidence Connecting Mercury's Magnesium Exosphere to Its Magnesium-Rich Surface Terrane

scholarly article by Aimee W. Merkel et al published 15 July 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Evidence for Reduced, Carbon-rich Regions in the Solar Nebula from an Unusual Cometary Dust Particle

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Evidence for geochemical terranes on Mercury: Global mapping of major elements with MESSENGER's X-Ray Spectrometer

scholarly article by Shoshana Z. Weider et al published April 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft

scientific article

Evidence for water ice near Mercury's north pole from MESSENGER Neutron Spectrometer measurements

scientific article

Evidence from MESSENGER for sulfur- and carbon-driven explosive volcanism on Mercury

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Explosive Nucleosynthesis in Core-collapse Type II Supernovae: Insights from New C, N, Si, and Al–Mg Isotopic Compositions of Presolar Grains

scholarly article published in January 2024

Extinct44Ti in Presolar Graphite and SiC: Proof of a Supernova Origin ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extremely 54Cr- and 50Ti-rich presolar oxide grains in a primitive meteorite: Formation in rare types of supernovae and implications for the astrophysical context of solar system birth. ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 March 2018

Final reports of the Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination

scholarly article

Flood volcanism in the northern high latitudes of Mercury revealed by MESSENGER.

scientific article

Fluid-induced organic synthesis in the solar nebula recorded in extraterrestrial dust from meteorites

scientific article

Geochemical terranes of Mercury’s northern hemisphere as revealed by MESSENGER neutron measurements

Geochemistry, mineralogy, and petrology of boninitic and komatiitic rocks on the mercurian surface: Insights into the mercurian mantle

scholarly article

High Abundances of Presolar Grains and N-rich Organic Matter in CO3.0 Chondrite Dominion Range 08006

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High-temperature Dust Condensation around an AGB Star: Evidence from a Highly Pristine Presolar Corundum ⬇️

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Hollows on Mercury: MESSENGER evidence for geologically recent volatile-related activity

scientific article

Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Hydrous Minerals in Asteroid Ryugu

scientific article published in April 2023

Hydrogen and major element concentrations on 433 Eros: Evidence for an L- or LL-chondrite-like surface composition

scholarly article

Identification of Rare Polytypes of Presolar SiC with Coordinated TEM, Raman Spectroscopy and NanoSIMS Measurements

Infrared Spectroscopy of Comet 81P/Wild 2 Samples Returned by Stardust

scientific article published in Science

Interstellar chemistry recorded in organic matter from primitive meteorites

scientific article published on May 2006

Interstellar oxide grains from the Tieschitz ordinary chondrite

scientific article published in Nature

Ion Implants as Matrix-Appropriate Calibrators for Geochemical Ion Probe Analyses

Isotopic compositions of cometary matter returned by Stardust

scientific article published in December 2006

J-type Carbon Stars: A Dominant Source of 14N-rich Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB ⬇️

scientific article

Late formation of silicon carbide in type II supernovae.

scientific article

Lunar X-ray fluorescence observations by the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS): Results from the nearside southern highlands

article by S. Narendranath et al published July 2011 in Icarus

MESSENGER at Mercury: Early orbital operations

MESSENGER detection of electron-induced X-ray fluorescence from Mercury's surface

scholarly article

Macromolecular organic matter in samples of the asteroid (162173) Ryugu

scholarly article

Magnesium-rich crustal compositions on Mercury: Implications for magmatism from petrologic modeling

scholarly article

Major-element abundances on the surface of Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

scholarly article

Mapping iron abundances on the surface of Mercury: Predicted spatial resolution of the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

Mercury's magnetosphere after MESSENGER's first flyby

scientific article

Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies

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Meteorites on Mars observed with the Mars Exploration Rovers

scholarly article by Christian Schröder et al published 18 April 2008 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Mineralogy and petrology of Dominion Range 08006: A very primitive CO3 carbonaceous chondrite

Neodymium‐142 deficits and samarium neutron stratigraphy of C‐type asteroid (162173) Ryugu

scientific article published on 7 December 2023

New Constraints on the Major Neutron Source in Low-mass AGB Stars

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Non-destructive search for interstellar dust using synchrotron microprobes

Orbital multispectral mapping of Mercury with the MESSENGER Mercury Dual Imaging System: Evidence for the origins of plains units and low-reflectance material

Organics Captured from Comet 81P/Wild 2 by the Stardust Spacecraft

scientific article published in Science

Origin and evolution of prebiotic organic matter as inferred from the Tagish Lake meteorite

scientific article

Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2

scholarly article

Presolar stardust in highly pristine CM chondrites Asuka 12169 and Asuka 12236

scholarly article

Radioactive elements on Mercury's surface from MESSENGER: implications for the planet's formation and evolution

scientific article published on September 2011

Remote sensing evidence for an ancient carbon-bearing crust on Mercury

Ryugu’s nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System

scholarly article

Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites

scholarly article

Small Bodies Tell the Story of the Solar System: A Scientific Rationale for a Multi-Target Small Body Sample Return Program including the Earth-based Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples ⬇️

white paper published in 2020

Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination I: Identification of tracks in aerogel

scholarly article

Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination II: Curating the interstellar dust collector, picokeystones, and sources of impact tracks

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination III: Infrared spectroscopic analysis of interstellar dust candidates

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IV: Scanning transmission X-ray microscopy analyses of impact features in the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination IX: High-speed interstellar dust analog capture in Stardust flight-spare aerogel

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination V: XRF analyses of interstellar dust candidates at ESRF ID13

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VI: Quantitative elemental analysis by synchrotron X-ray fluorescence nanoimaging of eight impact features in aerogel

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VII: Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence analysis of six Stardust interstellar candidates measured with the Advanced Photon Source 2-ID-D microprobe

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination VIII: Identification of crystalline material in two interstellar candidates

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination X: Impact speeds and directions of interstellar grains on the Stardust dust collector

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Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination XI: Identification and elemental analysis of impact craters on Al foils from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector

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Stellar Origin of 15N-rich Presolar SiC Grains of Type AB: Supernovae with Explosive Hydrogen Burning ⬇️

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Stellar origins of extremely ^13^C- and ^15^N-enriched presolar SiC grains: novae or supernovae? ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Strategic Investment in Laboratory Analysis of Planetary Materials as Ground Truth for Solar System Exploration ⬇️

white paper published in 2020

Terminal Proterozoic cyanobacterial blooms and phosphogenesis documented by the Doushantuo granular phosphorites I: In situ micro-analysis of textures and composition

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The BepiColombo Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer: Science Goals, Instrument Performance and Operations

scientific article published on 3 November 2020

The Magnesium Isotope Composition of Samples Returned from Asteroid Ryugu

scientific article published on 24 November 2023

The NEAR-Shoemaker x-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer experiment: Overview and lessons learned

scholarly article

The future of Stardust science

scholarly article

The major-element composition of Mercury's surface from MESSENGER X-ray spectrometry

scientific article published on September 2011

The redox state, FeO content, and origin of sulfur-rich magmas on Mercury

Triple F—a comet nucleus sample return mission

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Variations in the abundance of iron on Mercury’s surface from MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer observations

Variations in the abundances of potassium and thorium on the surface of Mercury: Results from the MESSENGER Gamma-Ray Spectrometer

scholarly article

Water circulation in Ryugu asteroid affected the distribution of nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in returned sample

scientific article published on 10 November 2023

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