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Note, Paper: Oooh, Shiny

Icarus, for Oct (vol. 439) contains the few but vital:

García-Migani, E. Gil-Hutton, R. Correa-Otto, J.  Activity in quasi-Hilda objects: A photometric approach  Art. 116634  .2025.116634
Fukai, R. Takeda, Y. Masuda, Y. et al.  The bright-field grinding tomography of coarse-grained calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite  Art. 116648  .2025.116648

The Hilda asteroids (or “asteroids”) form a fringe around the outside of the Main Belt. A resonant structure formed by Jupiter’s gravity, they are not a complete ring. Being at the very edge of the Belt, they are prime candidates for water ice and other volatiles. Every so often, a Hilda object may suffer from meteor impact, YORP spinup, etc., exposing subsurface volatiles and initiating activity. García-Migani et al. search for that activity (and therefore volatiles).

From the present, to the start- the very start. CAIs (Calcium Aluminum rich Inclusions) are, by definition, the first solids in the Solar System- they define the start point of our history. Fukai et al. put more decimal places on CAIs from Allende, arguably the most studied single rock, and whose fall marked a new era in meteoritics and cosmochemistry.

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