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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

– Arthur C. Clarke –

Peer-​reviewed articles​

Main author​

  • Haba, M. K. & Nagao, K. (2021).  NEW 

Cosmogenic noble gas nuclides in zircons from the Estherville mesosiderite. 

Meteoritics & Planetary Science, in press. 

https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13660

  • Haba, M. K., Lai, Y.-J., Wotzlaw, J. F., Yamaguchi, A., Lugaro, M. & Schönbächler, M. (2021). 

Precise initial abundance of Niobium-92 in the Solar System and implications for p-process nucleosynthesis. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (8), e2017750118. 

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017750118​​

Press release​: Tokyo Tech website (Japanese), ETH Zurich website (English/German​​)

  • Haba, M. K. & Wotzlaw, J. F. (2021).

ID-TIMS zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Camel Donga eucrite.

Chemical Geology, 567, 120073. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120073

  • Haba, M. K., Wotzlaw, J. F., Lai, Y.-J., Yamaguchi, A., & Schönbächler, M. (2019).

Mesosiderite formation on asteroid 4 Vesta by a hit-and-run collision.

Nature Geoscience, 12(7), 510–515. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0377-8

Press release​: Tokyo Tech website, ETH Zurich website

  • Haba, M. K., Yamaguchi, A., Kagi, H., Nagao, K. & Hidaka, H. (2017).

Trace element composition and U-Pb age of zircons from Estherville: Constraints on the timing of the metal-silicate mixing event on the mesosiderite parent body.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 215, 76–91. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.07.028

  • Haba, M. K., Yamaguchi, A., Horie, K. & Hidaka, H. (2014).

Major and trace elements of zircons from basaltic eucrites: Implications for the formation of zircons on the eucrite parent body.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 387, 10–21. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.006

  • Kikuchi, M., Hidaka, H. & Gauthier-Lafaye, F. (2010).

Formation and geochemical significance of micrometallic aggregates including fissiogenic platinum group elements in the Oklo natural reactor, Gabon.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(16), 4709–4722. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2010.06.004

  • Kikuchi, M. & Hidaka, H. (2009).

In-situ U-Pb analyses of highly altered zircon from sediments overlying the Bangombé natural fission reactor, Gabon.

Geosciences Journal, 13(3), 257–264. 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12303-009-0025-1

  • Kikuchi, M., Hidaka, H. & Horie, K. (2008).

Geochemical behavior of radionuclides in highly altered zircon above the Bangombé natural fission reactor, Gabon.

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 33(14–16), 978–982. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2008.05.009

  • Kikuchi, M., Hidaka, H., Horie, K. & Gauthier-Lafaye, F. (2007).

Redistribution of REE, Pb and U by supergene weathering studied from in-situ isotopic analyses of the Bangombé natural reactor, Gabon.

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71(19), 4716–4726. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2007.07.016

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Co-author

  • Kagami, S., Haba, M. K., Yokoyama, T., Usui, T. & Greenwood, R. C. (2019).

Geochemistry and Sm‐Nd chronology of a Stannern‐group eucrite, Northwest Africa 7188.

Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54(11), 2710–2728.

https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13382

  • Nagao, K., Haba, M. K., Lee, J. I., Kim, T., Lee, M. J., Park, C., Jwa, Y. J. & Choi, B.-G. (2016).

Major elements and noble gases of the Jinju (H5) meteorite, an observed fall on March 9, 2014, in South Korea.

Geochemical Journal, 50(4), 315–325.

https://doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.2.0418

  • Iizuka, T., Yamaguchi, A., Haba, M. K., Amelin, Y., Holden, P., Zink, S., Huyskens, M. H. & Ireland, T. R. (2015).

Timing of global crustal metamorphism on Vesta as revealed by high-precision U–Pb dating and trace element chemistry of eucrite zircon.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 409, 182–192.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.10.055

  • Righter, K., Abell, P., Agresti, D., Berger, E. L., Burton, A. S., Delaney, J. S., Fries, M. D., Gibson, E. K., Haba, M. K., Harrington, R., Herzog, G. F., Keller, L. P., Locke, D., Lindsay, F. N., McCoy, T. J., Morris, R. V., Nagao, K., Nakamura-Messenger, K., Niles, P. B., … Zeigler, R. A. (2015).

Mineralogy, petrology, chronology, and exposure history of the Chelyabinsk meteorite and parent body.

Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 50(10), 1790–1819.

https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12511

  • Popova, O. P., Jenniskens, P., Emel’yanenko, V., Kartashova, A., Biryukov, E., Khaibrakhmanov, S., Shuvalov, V., Rybnov, Y., Dudorov, A., Grokhovsky, V. I., Badyukov, D. D., Yin, Q.-Z., Gural, P. S., Albers, J., Granvik, M., Evers, L. G., Kuiper, J., Kharlamov, V., Solovyov, A., … Mikouchi, T. (2013).

Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization.

Science, 342(6162), 1069–1073.

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1242642

  • Hidaka, H. & Kikuchi, M. (2010).

SHRIMP in situ isotopic analyses of REE, Pb and U in micro-minerals bearing fission products in the Oklo and Bangombé natural reactors: A review of a natural analogue study for the migration of fission products.

Precambrian Research, 183(1), 158–165.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2010.07.012

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