Markus Patzek

Markus Patzek

Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10, room 111e
48149 Münster

T: +49 251 83-33606

Academic Profiles

  • Research Foci

    • Development of an advanced cometary analogue material
    • Formation and evolution of regolith on asteroids and the Moon
    • Mission studies and development of space hardware.
    • Classification of meteorites
    • aqueous alteration and the significance of fluids in volatile-rich clasts
    • Lithologies of the meteoritic breccia Almahata Sitta (Asteroid 2008/TC3)
  • CV

    Academic Education

    PhD - Institut für Planetologie, WWU Münster
    Master of Science: Planetology - Institut für Planetologie, WWU Münster - "Identification and characterization of volatile-rich clasts in brecciated meteorites"
    Bachelor of Science: Geosciences - Institut für Planetologie, WWU Münster - "Textural and microchemical investigation of selected ureilitic fragments from the Almahata Sitta strewnfield"

    Positions

    Lecturer, Institute for Planetology, Universität Münster
    Research assistant (Postdoc), Institute for Planetology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Research assistant (doctoral student), Institute for Planetology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    Research assistant, Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

    Honors

    Brian Mason AwardConference Comittee of the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
  • Publications

    • , , , , and . . “Oxygen Isotopic Variations in the Calcium, Aluminum-rich Inclusion–forming Region Recorded by a Single Refractory Inclusion from the CO3.1 Carbonaceous Chondrite Dar al Gani 083.Astrophysical Journal, 966: 110. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2ea8.
    • , , and . . “Characterization of the micrometer scale surface roughness of meteoritic samples.Icarus, 412: 115984115984. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115984.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Discovery of a Dust Sorting Process on Boulders Near the Reiner Gamma Swirl on the Moon.Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129 (1): e2023JE007910. doi: 10.1029/2023JE007910.
    • , , and . . “On the Response of Chondrites to Diurnal Temperature Change—Experimental Simulation of Asteroidal Surface Conditions.Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129 (1): e2023JE007944. doi: 10.1029/2023JE007944.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “The anomalous polymict ordinary chondrite breccia of Elmshorn (H3-6)—Late reaccretion after collision between two ordinary chondrite parent bodies, complete disruption, and mixing possibly about 2.8 Gyr ago.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, (early view) doi: 10.1111/maps.14193.

    • , , , , , , and . . “Saint-Pierre-le-Viger (L5-6) from asteroid 2023 CX1 recovered in the Normandy, France—220 years after the historic fall of L'Aigle (L6 breccia) in the neighborhood.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 58 (10): 13851398. doi: 10.1111/maps.14074.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Saint-Pierre-le-Viger (L5-6) from asteroid 2023 CX1 recovered in the Normandy, France—220 years after the historic fall of L'Aigle (L6 breccia) in the neighborhood.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 58 (10): 13851398. doi: 10.1111/maps.14074.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , , , , , , and . “The first main group ureilite with primary plagioclase: A missing link in the differentiation of the ureilite parent body.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 2022 (57): 15891616. doi: 10.1111/maps.13889.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , and . “Asteroid 2008 TC3, not a polymict ureilitic but a polymict C1 chondrite parent body? Survey of 249 Almahata Sitta fragments.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 2022 (57): 13391364. doi: 10.1111/maps.13821.
    • , , , , , and . . “Catastrophic rupture of lunar rocks: Implications for lunar rock size–frequency distributions.Icarus, 387 115200. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2022.115200.
    • , , , , , , , and . . “The chondrite breccia of Antonin (L4-5)—A new meteorite fall from Poland with a heterogeneous distribution of metal.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 57: 21272142. doi: 10.1111/maps.13905.
    • , and . “Experimentally Induced Thermal Fatigue on Lunar and Eucrite Meteorites—Influence of the Mineralogy on Rock Breakdown.Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127 (10) e2022JE007306. doi: 10.1029/2022JE007306.
    Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences)
    • , , , , and . “Al-rich chondrules from unequilibrated ordinary and CO carbonaceous chondrites: Evidence for 16O-enriched refractory precursors.” contribution to the Meteoritical Society Meeting, Glasgow
    • , , , , , , , , , , , and . “Discovery of hydrated clasts with very high abundance of ferromagnesian 16O-rich olivine: Inner or outer solar system origin?” contribution to the Meteoritical Society Meeting, Glasgow

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . “Classification of CM chondrite breccias – implications for the evaluation of samples from the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa 2 missions.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56: 127147. doi: 10.1111/MAPS.13486.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , and . “The polymict carbonaceous breccia Aguas Zarcas: A potential analogue to samples being returned by the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 missions.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 56: 277310. doi: 10.1111/maps.13620.
    Conference Contributions
    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    • , , , , , and . . “A unique chondrite clast in the NWA 13262 (L3 breccia) bearing similarities to carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites.” in Vol.56 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences)
    • , , , , , , and . . “O-isotope signatures of olivine and pyroxene grains in C1 and CM-like clasts.” in Vol.56 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , , and . “Insights into the formation of silica-rich achondrites from impact melts in Rumuruti-type chondrites.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 55: 130148. doi: 10.1111/maps.13430.
    • , , , , and . . “Hydrogen isotopic composition of CI- and CM-like clasts from meteorite breccias – Sampling unknown sources of carbonaceous chondrite material.Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 272: 177197. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.12.017.
    • , , , , , , and . . “Hf-W chronology of a macrochondrule from the L5/6 chondrite Northwest Africa 8192.Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 55 (10): 22412255. doi: 10.1111/maps.13571.
    • , , , , and . “A short-lived 26Al induced hydrothermal alteration event in the outer solar system: Constraints from Mn/Cr ages of carbonates.Earth Planetary Science Letters, 547: 116440.
    Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences)
    • , , , , , , , and . “Characteristics of a new carbonaceous, metal-rich lithology found in the carbonaceous chondrite breccia Aguas Zarcas.” contribution to the 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Woodlands, USA

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . “Accretion of differentiated achondritic and aqueously-altered chondritic materials in the Early Solar System - significance of an igneous fragment in the CM chondrite NWA 12651.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54: 2985–2995. doi: 10.1111/maps.13407.
    • , , and . “Shock stage distribution of 2280 ordinary chondrites – Can bulk chondrites with a shock stage S6 exist as individual rocks?Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54: 21892202. doi: 10.1111/maps.13208.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . “The Renchen L5-6 chondrite breccia – the first confirmed meteorite fall from Baden-Württemberg (Germany).Geochemistry – Chemie der Erde, 79: 125525. doi: 10.1016/j.chemer.2019.07.007.
    • , , and . “Modal abundances of coarse-grained (>5 µm) components within CI-chondrites and their individual clasts – mixing of various lithologies on the CI parent body(ies).Geochemistry – Chemie der Erde, 79: 125532. doi: 10.1016/j.chemer.2019.08.004.
    • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Ejby - a new H5/6 ordinary chondrite fall in Copenhagen, Denmark.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54: 18531869. doi: 10.1111/maps.13344.
    • , , , , , , , , , and . “A light, chondritic xenolith in the Murchison (CM) chondrite – formation by fluid-assisted percolation during metasomatism?Geochemistry - Chemie der Erde, 79: #125518. doi: 10.1016/j.chemer.2019.06.002.
    • , , , , and . . “Sulfur isotope study of sulfides in CI, CM, C2ung chondrites and volatile-rich clasts–Evidence for different generations and reservoirs of sulfide formation.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 261: 210223.
    • , , and . “Shock stage distribution of 2280 ordinary chondrites – can bulk chondrites with a shock stage S6 exist as individual rocks?Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 54 doi: 10.1111/maps.13208.
    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    • , , and . “Modal abundances of coarse-grained (>5 µm) components within CI-chondrites and their individual clasts.” contribution to the GeoMünster 2019, Münster
    • , , and . “Modal abundances of coarse-grained components within CI-chondrites and their individual clasts.” contribution to the Paneth-Kolloquium, Nördlingen
    • , , , , and . “Rare earth elements and O-Al-Mg isotope systematics from a >200 µm corundum grain in a CAI of the CK3 chondrite NWA 4964.” in Vol.54 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , , , , , , , , and . “A chondritic xenolith in the Murchison (CM2) chondrite formed by fluid-assisted percolation during metasomatism.” in Vol.54 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , , , , , and . “A xenolith in the Murchison CM chondrite formed by fluid-assisted percolation during metasomatism (CM6?).” contribution to the Paneth-Kolloquium, Nördlingen
    • , , and . . “Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic evidence for the existence of several C1 parent bodies in the early solar system.” contribution to the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Woodlands
    • , , and . . “.: Chromium isotopes and trace element concentration of xenolithic C1 clasts in brecciated chondrites and achondrites.” in Vol.54 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , and . . “Xenolithic C1 clasts and their relation to the host rocks revealed by chromium isotopes and trace element concentrations.” contribution to the Geomünster 2019, Münster
    • , , and . . “Assessing different types of CI material by H, O, and Cr isotope systematics.” contribution to the Paneth-Kolloquium, Nördlingen
    • , , , , and . “Hydrothermal alteration in the outer solar System.” contribution to the Paneth-Kolloquium, Nördlingen
    • , , , , and . “Manganese-chromium ages of carbonates in aqueously-altered carbonaceous chondrites and clasts.” in Vol.54 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , and . “Brecciation among 2280 ordinary chondrites – constraints on the evolution of their parent bodies.Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 238: 516541. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.020.
    • , and . . “Mineralogy of volatile-rich clasts in brecciated meteorites.Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 53: 25192540. doi: 10.1111/maps.13175.
    • , , , , and . “Temperature constraints by Raman spectroscopy of organic matter in volatile-rich clasts and carbonaceous chondrites.Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 241: 3855.
    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    • , , , , , and . “A large, light fragment in the Murchison (CM) breccia - a unique, highly-metamorphosed chondrite as a xenolith in a CM chondrite.” in Vol.53 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53
    • , , and . “A remarkable and well-rounded Zn-CAI in the CO3 chondrite Dar al Gani 083.” in Vol.53 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53
    • , , and . “Xenolithic fragment in the CM chondrite Mukundpura: Greetings from the Tucson parent body?” in Vol.53 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53
    • , , , , , , and . “Mineralogical study of a white clast from Murchison (CM2): comparison with R-chondrites.” contribution to the MetSoc, Moskau
    • , , , , , and . “Disequilibrium crystallization of Rumuruti chondrite impact melts.” contribution to the 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C.
    • , , and . . “O-isotopes of mineral constituents of CI-like clasts from ureilites.” in Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53
    • , , , , and . . “O-isotope composition of CI- and CM-like clasts in ureilites, HEDs, and CR chondrites.” in Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53
    • , , , , and . . “How many CI-like parent bodies existed in the Early Solar System?” contribution to the 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C.
    • , , , , and . “Sulfur isotope composition of sulfides in carbonaceous chondrites and volatile-rich CI- and CM-like clasts from various chondrites and achondrites.” contribution to the MetSoc, Moskau , edited by Meteoritics, Planetary Science 53 and 6190.
    • , , , , and . . “In situ sulfur isotope study of sulfides in carbonaceous chondrites and volatile-rich clasts.” contribution to the 2018 Fall Meeting, AGU, Washington, D.C.

    Research Articles (Journals)
    • , , , , and . “Chelyabinsk – a rock with many different (stony) faces: An infrared study.Icarus, 284 (null): 431442. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2016.11.030.
    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    • , , , , and . “Raman carbon thermometry constraints of low temperature carbonaceous chondrites and volatile-rich clasts.” in http://www.paneth.eu/ PanethKolloquium/2017/0043.pdf, edited by http://www.paneth.eu/ PanethKolloquium/2017/0043.pdf.
    • , , , , and . “Raman temperature constrains of volatile-rich clasts in polymict ureilites, polymict eucrites, and howardites.” in Vol.52 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , , , and . . “CI-like clasts in polymict ureilites and HEDs: Identification of components from an so far unknown carbonaceous chondrite parent body.” contribution to the Paneth Kolloquium, Nördlingen (Germany) , edited by http://www.paneth.eu/PanethKolloquium/2017/0028.pdf.
    • , , , , and . . “Brecciation of CI chondrites: Uncoupled D/H and elemental ratios in individual fragments – Evidence for a low variability in D/H ratio after alteration.” in Vol.52 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , , , and . . “Water-bearing, volatile-rich clasts in howardites and polymict ureilites – carriers of Deuterium-enriched waters not sampled by individual meteorites.” in Vol.52 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science
    • , , and . “Modal abundances of accessory phases within clasts in CI chondrites.” in http://www.paneth.eu/PanethKolloquium/2017/0078.pdf

    Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)
    • , , and . “New Volatile-Rich Clasts from Brecciated Chondrites and Achondrites.” contribution to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Berlin
    Abstracts in Digital Collections (Conferences)
    • , , , , , and . “Almahatta Sitta News: Well-Known Varieties and New Species in the Zoo.” contribution to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Berlin

    • . . “Search and characterization of volatile-rich clasts in brecciated meteorites.” in Vol.Special Issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, edited by Meteoritical Society.
    • . . “Characterization of new volatile-rich clasts found in brecciated chondrites and achondrites.” contribution to the Paneth-Kolloquium, Nördlingen , edited by Paneth-Kolloquium.
    • , , , , , , and . “New individuals from the Almahata Sitta strewn field: Old friends and brand-new fellows.” in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50, Special Issue

    • , , and . . “Textural and chemical studies of selected ureilitic fragments from the Almahata Sitta strewnfield.” contribution to the Paneth Kolloquium, Nördlingen, Deutschland