Research & Publications

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Meteorite Research at UMN

Stardust Mine, NWA 16800, NWA 17510, NWA 15915/KG 022, Zli 121, NWA 

Publications

Although we only have a small team of meteorite researchers at the University of Minnesota, we're hard at work publishing our findings! Check out the journal publications and conference abstracts below.

Bold = current meteorite committee member and/or researcher

Underlined = previous meteorite committee member, UMN staff/students

Journal Publications

• Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R., Allerton, Z.P., Ding, W., Zheng,X.-Y. (in review), Stardust Mine, a 2024 gabbroic shergottite from Arizona, USA, submitted to Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Conference Abstracts

• Mitchell, J.T., Brown, M.C., Feinberg, J.M. (2025), Preliminary compositional and magnetism analysis of Northwest Africa 15915, an unusual ungrouped achondrite, 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, LPI Contribution No. 3090:2035 [link]

• First, E.C., Welsch, B.T., Mitchell, J.T., Rutherford, M.J. (2025), Widespread Ti zoning in Apollo 17 olivine, 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, LPI Contribution No. 3090:2873 [link]

• 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, 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, LPI Contribution No. 3036:6180 [link]

• Mitchell, J.T., Alexander, E.C. (2024), A new meteorite repository from a historical collection at the University of Minnesota, 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, LPI Contribution No. 3036:6181 [link]

• Mitchell, J.T., Stephen, N.R. (2024), The oriented clouding phases of HED breccia Northwest Africa 5315, 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, LPI Contribution No. 3040:1624 [link]