List of works by Ian A. Franchi

A detailed mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical study of the highly reduced chondrite, Acfer 370

scholarly article

A deuterium-poor water reservoir in the asteroid 4 Vesta and the inner solar system

scientific article published in March 2021

A divergent heritage for complex organics in Isheyevo lithic clasts

article by Elishevah M.M.E. van Kooten et al published May 2017 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

A mutli-technique search for the most primitive CO chondrites

scholarly article

A pristine record of outer Solar System materials from asteroid Ryugu’s returned sample

scientific article published in 2022

A water–ice rich minor body from the early Solar System: The CR chondrite parent asteroid

scientific article published in December 2014

A “mesosiderite” rock from northern Siberia, Russia: Not a meteorite

scholarly article

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

Accurate and precise measurements of the D/H ratio and hydroxyl content in lunar apatites using NanoSIMS

scholarly article

Amino acid composition, petrology, geochemistry, 14C terrestrial age and oxygen isotopes of the Shişr 033 CR chondrite

scholarly article

An ancient reservoir of volatiles in the Moon sampled by lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 10989

scientific article

An anomalous basaltic meteorite from the innermost main belt

scientific article

An asteroidal origin for water in the Moon

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

An igneous-textured clast in the Peace River meteorite: insights into accretion and metamorphism of asteroids in the early solar system

scientific article published in January 2013

An oxygen isotope study of Wark–Lovering rims on type A CAIs in primitive carbonaceous chondrites

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Apatites in lunar KREEP basalts: The missing link to understanding the H isotope systematics of the Moon

scholarly article

Bunburra Rockhole: Exploring the geology of a new differentiated asteroid

scholarly article

Carbon and nitrogen in carbonaceous chondrites: Elemental abundances and stable isotopic compositions

scientific article published in December 2006

Carbon and nitrogen isotope disturbances and an end-Norian (Late Triassic) extinction event

scientific article published in 2002

Carbonate assemblages in Cold Bokkeveld CM chondrite reveal complex parent body evolution

scholarly article

Cavezzo—The double face of a meteorite: Mineralogy, petrography, and geochemistry of a very unusual chondrite

scholarly article by Giovanni Pratesi et al published 23 June 2021 in Meteoritics & Planetary Science

Characterization of mesostasis regions in lunar basalts: Understanding late-stage melt evolution and its influence on apatite formation

scholarly article

Chlorine isotopic compositions of apatite in Apollo 14 rocks: Evidence for widespread vapor-phase metasomatism on the lunar nearside ∼4 billion years ago

article by Nicola J. Potts et al published June 2018 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Clay mineral-organic matter relationships in the early solar system

scholarly article

Comet 81P/Wild 2 under a microscope

scientific article

Comment on “The triple oxygen isotope composition of the Earth mantle and understanding Δ17O variations in terrestrial rocks and minerals” by Pack and Herwartz [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 390 (2014) 138–145]

scientific article published in May 2015

Constraints on the formation conditions of iron meteorites based on concentrations and isotopic compositions of nitrogen

scientific article published in July 1993

Cosmic spherules from Widerøefjellet, Sør Rondane Mountains (East Antarctica)

scientific article published in February 2020

Cosmochemical and spectroscopic properties of Northwest Africa 7325-A consortium study

scientific article published on 20 December 2015

Crustal differentiation in the early solar system: Clues from the unique achondrite Northwest Africa 7325 (NWA 7325)

scientific article published in November 2015

Crustal partial melting on Vesta: Evidence from highly metamorphosed eucrites

scholarly article

Deuterium and 37Chlorine Rich Fluids on the Surface of Mars: Evidence From the Enriched Basaltic Shergottite Northwest Africa 8657

scientific article published in September 2020

Discovery of non-random spatial distribution of impacts in the Stardust cometary collector

scholarly article

Early degassing of lunar urKREEP by crust-breaching impact(s)

scholarly article

Elemental compositions of comet 81P/Wild 2 samples collected by Stardust

scientific article published in December 2006

Elephant Moraine 96029, a very mildly aqueously altered and heated CM carbonaceous chondrite: Implications for the drivers of parent body processing

scientific article published in August 2016

Empirical evidence for the fractionation of carbon isotopes between diamond and iron carbide from the Earth's mantle

scholarly article

Erratum: Kronos: exploring the depths of Saturn with probes and remote sensing through an international mission

Experimental insights into Stannern-trend eucrite petrogenesis

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Experimental investigation of F, Cl, and OH partitioning between apatite and Fe-rich basaltic melt at 1.0–1.2 GPa and 950–1000 °C

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 100 no. 8-9, August 2015

Experimental simulation of oxygen isotopic exchange in olivine and implication for the formation of metamorphosed carbonaceous chondrites

scientific article published on 30 September 2013

Exploring the Bimodal Solar System via Sample Return from the Main Asteroid Belt: The Case for Revisiting Ceres

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Extensive impact melting on the H-chondrite parent asteroid during the cataclysmic bombardment of the early solar system: Evidence from the achondritic meteorite Dar al Gani 896

scholarly article

Fluid evolution in CM carbonaceous chondrites tracked through the oxygen isotopic compositions of carbonates

scientific article

Geochemistry and oxygen isotope composition of main-group pallasites and olivine-rich clasts in mesosiderites: Implications for the “Great Dunite Shortage” and HED-mesosiderite connection

scientific article published in November 2015

Geochemistry of carbonaceous impactites from the Gardnos impact structure, Norway

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Geochemistry of intermediate olivine-phyric shergottite Northwest Africa 6234, with similarities to basaltic shergottite Northwest Africa 480 and olivine-phyric shergottite Northwest Africa 2990

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H and Cl isotope characteristics of indigenous and late hydrothermal fluids on the differentiated asteroidal parent body of Grave Nunataks 06128

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H and Cl isotope systematics of apatite in brecciated lunar meteorites Northwest Africa 4472, Northwest Africa 773, Sayh al Uhaymir 169, and Kalahari 009

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Heavy nitrogen in Bencubbin—a light-element isotopic anomaly in a stony-iron meteorite

scientific article published in Nature

Helium–oxygen–osmium isotopic and elemental constraints on the mantle sources of the Deccan Traps

scientific article published in November 2017

Hydrogen isotope analyses of alteration phases in the nakhlite martian meteorites

scientific article published in November 2012

Identification of the parent bodies of micrometeorites with high-precision oxygen isotope ratios

scientific article

Igneous and shock processes affecting chassignite amphibole evaluated using chlorine/water partitioning and hydrogen isotopes

scholarly article

Impact features on Stardust: implications for comet 81P/Wild 2 dust

scientific article published in December 2006

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

scientific article published in Science

Investigating magmatic processes in the early Solar System using the Cl isotopic systematics of eucrites

scientific article published in December 2019

Isotopic and textural analysis of giant unmelted micrometeorites – identification of new material from intensely altered 16O-poor water-rich asteroids

scientific article published in September 2020

Isotopic diversity in interplanetary dust particles and preservation of extreme 16 O-depletion

scientific article

Isotopic evidence for pallasite formation by impact mixing of olivine and metal during the first 10 million years of the Solar System

scholarly article

Jiddat al Harasis 422: A ureilite with an extremely high degree of shock melting

scholarly article

Jiddat al Harasis 556: A howardite impact melt breccia with an H chondrite component

scholarly article

Kronos: exploring the depths of Saturn with probes and remote sensing through an international mission

Light dement geochemistry of the Tagish Lake CI2 chondrite: Comparison with CI1 and CM2 meteorites

scholarly article

Light element geochemistry of the Chelyabinsk meteorite

scientific article published in July 2013

Linking asteroids and meteorites to the primordial planetesimal population

scientific article published in May 2020

MARCO POLO: near earth object sample return mission

MarcoPolo-R : Near Earth Asteroid Sample Return Mission candidate as ESA-M3 class mission

scholarly article

MarcoPolo-R near earth asteroid sample return mission

MarcoPolo-R: Near-Earth Asteroid sample return mission selected for the assessment study phase of the ESA program cosmic vision

Maribo-A new CM fall from Denmark

scientific article published in January 2012

Mass-independent fractionation of oxygen isotopes during thermal decomposition of carbonates

scientific article

Microbial endolithic colonization and the geochemical environment in young seafloor basalts

scholarly article

Multiple early-formed water reservoirs in the interior of Mars

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Multiple reservoirs of volatiles in the Moon revealed by the isotopic composition of chlorine in lunar basalts

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Multiple sulfur isotopic reservoirs in the Moon and implications for the evolution of planetary interiors

scientific article published on 2 September 2020

NWA 1152 and Sahara 00182: New primitive carbonaceous chondrites with affinities to the CR and CV groups

scholarly article

Northwest Africa 6486: Record of large impact events and fluid alteration on the L chondrite asteroid

scholarly article

OSIRIS-REx Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation.

scientific article

One of the earliest refractory inclusions and its implications for solar system history

scholarly article

Organic matter and water from asteroid Itokawa

scientific article

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

scientific article published in Science

Organics preserved in anhydrous interplanetary dust particles: Pristine or not?

scholarly article

Oxygen isotope and petrological study of silicate inclusions in IIE iron meteorites and their relationship with H chondrites

scholarly article

Oxygen isotope variation in primitive achondrites: The influence of primordial, asteroidal and terrestrial processes

scientific article published in October 2012

Oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin and parent bodies of eucrites, diogenites, and howardites

scientific article published in October 2009

Oxygen isotopic evidence for accretion of Earth's water before a high-energy Moon-forming giant impact.

scientific article

Oxygen three-isotope fractionation lines in terrestrial silicate minerals: An inter-laboratory comparison of hydrothermal quartz and eclogitic garnet

scholarly article

Petrography and geochemistry of the chassignite Northwest Africa 2737 (NWA 2737)

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Petrography, stable isotope compositions, microRaman spectroscopy, and presolar components of Roberts Massif 04133: A reduced CV3 carbonaceous chondrite.

scholarly article

Petrological, petrofabric, and oxygen isotopic study of five ungrouped meteorites related to brachinites

scholarly article

Petrology and geochemistry of the Northwest Africa 3368 eucrite

scientific article published in July 2011

Petrology and oxygen isotopic composition of large igneous inclusions in ordinary chondrites: Early solar system igneous processes and oxygen reservoirs

scientific article published in December 2019

Petrology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of the olivine diogenite NWA 4255: new insights into the magmatic evolution of asteroid 4 Vesta

scientific article published in July 2019

Pinpointing the source of a lunar meteorite: implications for the evolution of the Moon

scientific article

Preservation of primordial signatures of water in highly-shocked ancient lunar rocks

scientific article published in August 2020

Quantifying noble gas contamination during terrestrial alteration in Martian meteorites from Antarctica

Relationship between CAIs and chondrules: A case study of a compound chondrule from the Allende (CV3) meteorite

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Sierra Gorda 009: A new member of the metal‐rich G chondrites grouplet

scholarly article

Signatures of the post-hydration heating of highly aqueously altered CM carbonaceous chondrites and implications for interpreting asteroid sample returns

scholarly article

Sodium-, chlorine-rich mesostases in Chainpur (LL3) and Parnallee (LL3) chondrules

scholarly article

Stable isotope analysis of carbon and nitrogen in angrites

scholarly article

Terrestrial alteration mineral assemblages in the NWA 10416 olivine phyric shergottite

scientific article published in July 2020

The Australian Desert Fireball Network: a new era for planetary science

scientific article published in March 2012

The Braunschweig meteorite − a recent L6 chondrite fall in Germany

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The Fountain Hills unique CB chondrite: Insights into thermal processes on the CB parent body

scholarly article

The Genesis Solar-Wind Collector Materials

The Isheyevo meteorite: Mineralogy, petrology, bulk chemistry, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon isotopic compositions, and40Ar-39Ar ages

scholarly article

The K (Kakangari) chondrite grouplet

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The L3-6 chondritic regolith breccia Northwest Africa (NWA) 869: (I) Petrology, chemistry, oxygen isotopes, and Ar-Ar age determinations

scientific article published on 12 April 2011

The Loongana (CL) group of carbonaceous chondrites

scientific article

The Northwest Africa (NWA) 5790 meteorite: A mesostasis-rich nakhlite with little or no Martian aqueous alteration

scientific article

The Paris meteorite, the least altered CM chondrite so far

scientific article published in January 2014

The Puerto Lápice eucrite

The Stannern trend eucrites: Contamination of main group eucritic magmas by crustal partial melts

scholarly article

The Tafassasset primitive achondrite: Insights into initial stages of planetary differentiation

scientific article published in May 2012

The Vicência meteorite fall: A new unshocked (S1) weakly metamorphosed (3.2) LL chondrite

scholarly article

The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system

scholarly article

The Winchcombe meteorite—A regolith breccia from a rubble pile CM chondrite asteroid

scientific article published on 21 December 2022

The abundance and isotopic composition of water in eucrites

scholarly article

The abundance, distribution, and isotopic composition of Hydrogen in the Moon as revealed by basaltic lunar samples: Implications for the volatile inventory of the Moon

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The chlorine isotopic composition of the Moon: Insights from melt inclusions

The formation and alteration of the Renazzo-like carbonaceous chondrites I: Implications of bulk-oxygen isotopic composition

scientific article published in January 2011

The hydrogen isotopic composition of lunar melt inclusions: An interplay of complex magmatic and secondary processes

scientific article published in September 2020

The mineralogy, petrology, and composition of anomalous eucrite Emmaville

scholarly article

The origin of aubrites: Evidence from lithophile trace element abundances and oxygen isotope compositions

scientific article published in November 2016

The origin of water in the primitive Moon as revealed by the lunar highlands samples

scholarly article

The oxygen isotope composition of diogenites: Evidence for early global melting on a single, compositionally diverse, HED parent body

scientific article published in March 2014

The oxygen isotope composition, petrology and geochemistry of mare basalts: Evidence for large-scale compositional variation in the lunar mantle

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The oxygen isotope evolution of parent body aqueous solutions as recorded by multiple carbonate generations in the Lonewolf Nunataks 94101 CM2 carbonaceous chondrite

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The oxygen isotopic composition of water from Tagish Lake: Its relationship to low-temperature phases and to other carbonaceous chondrites

scholarly article

The petrology and geochemistry of Miller Range 05035: A new lunar gabbroic meteorite

scholarly article by Katherine Joy et al published August 2008 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

The relationship between CK and CV chondrites

scientific article published in March 2010

The shocking state of apatite and merrillite in shergottite Northwest Africa 5298 and extreme nanoscale chlorine isotope variability revealed by atom probe tomography

scientific article published in January 2021

Thermal history of Northwest Africa 5073--A coarse-grained Stannern-trend eucrite containing cm-sized pyroxenes and large zircon grains

scientific article published in November 2011

Tissint martian meteorite: a fresh look at the interior, surface, and atmosphere of Mars.

scientific article

Trace element geochemistry of K-rich impact spherules from howardites

scholarly article by Jean-Alix Barrat et al published October 2009 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Triple oxygen isotopic composition of the high-3He/4He mantle

scientific article published in March 2016

Tubular microfossils from ∼2.8 to 2.7Ga-old lacustrine deposits of South Africa: A sign for early origin of eukaryotes?

scientific article (publication date: November 2016)

Water in evolved lunar rocks: Evidence for multiple reservoirs

article by Katharine L. Robinson et al published September 2016 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Widespread magma oceans on asteroidal bodies in the early Solar System

scientific article published in Nature