Space Science Reviews lives up to its name- ‘review’ includes stuff you find applicable, and other stuff included for context. Lots of stuff. In the context of this blog, here’s stuff for ‘October’ (they’re fully digital, issues no longer make sense). In Volume 220:
Desch, S. Miret-Roig, N. The Sun’s Birth Environment: Context for Meteoritics
article 76 s11214-024-01113-x
Jacquet, E. Dullemond, C. Drążkowska, J. et al. The Early Solar System and Its Meteoritical Witnesses article 78 s11214-024-01112-y
Zolensky, M. Engrand, C. Nakamura, T. et al. Composition and Mineralogy of Nuclei Material of Short Period Comets Revealed by Recent Spacecraft Missions article 79 s11214-024-01111-z
Context here means the early Solar System, including the presolar nebula, the context for forming asteroids and comets (and thus planets, in time). As cosmochemistry and astrophysics, that’s a relevant step along the process, but starting to drill deep into the decimal places.
Getting our hands dirty in tangible meteoritics, Jacquet et al. cover the surviving samples from that era: primitive chondrites. Yes, deep space makes a good deep freezer. For samples that never melted and differentiated either, preservation as small bodies was handy for us, in the modern age, to study. These witnesses have a story to tell: the story of everything in this System.
Comets, I’ve said, are difficult to study due to difficult, inaccessible orbits. Even telescopes get diffused out by the coma around a nucleus, as it nears the inner Solar System (and thus, our telescopes). Still, a few spacecraft have made it to comets, and gotten some chemical data. To some extent, we can infer things about comets from certain dust particles, which seem to be from comets. (We’re talking stochastically here.) What, per Zolensky et al., is their story?