Scanning Electron Microscope-Cathodoluminescence Properties of Fayalite and Forsterite from Kaba CV3 Chondrite: Application to Mineralogy of IDPs

Luminescence Spectroscopical Properties of Plagioclase Particles from the Hayabusa Sample Return Mission: An Implication for Study of Space Weathering Processes in the Asteroid Itokawa

“…CL studies for minerals, especially feldspar, have been conducted in the planetary sciences to characterize shock metamorphic effects (Sippel & Spencer, 1970;Götze et al, 1999), to identify high-pressure minerals and shock-induced microdeformations (Kayama et al, 2009), to observe their distribution in meteorites and impactites (Kayama et al, 2012), and to clarify the degree of irradiation damage (Kayama et al, 2011). Luminescence methods have also been used for mineralogical investigations of micrometeorites collected from Antarctica or relatively small meteoritic fragments (around 10 µm) (Gucsik et al, 2007(Gucsik et al, , 2009Sears et al, 2013). Recently, CL has been successfully applied to the shock wave barometry of impactites from the terrestrial impact structures and impact-derived glasses (Gucsik et al, 2002(Gucsik et al, , 2003(Gucsik et al, , 2004a(Gucsik et al, , 2004b, as well as luminescence-based laboratory astromineralogy, including the study of meteoritic and experimentally grown forsterite samples (Gucsik et al, 2012a(Gucsik et al, , 2013Nishido et al, 2013) from carbonaceous chondrites, diamonds (Gucsik et al, 2012b) and shocked clay minerals (Gavin et al, 2013).…”