` Pheasant Memorial Laboratory

Our goal is to describe atoms that represent element distribution of the Solar system that are continuously evolving from the beginning to the future. To understand the Solar system with spatial scale 1013 m, we analyze planetary materials that are from different origin with different processes, and determine element and isotope compositions with spatial resolution down to 10-9 m.

Planetary materials besides terrestrial ones are the rolling stones that are sampled with locality unknown. To fill the important missing information, we developed a protocol that is to determine multiple-elements, multiple-isotopes, and multiple-phases. We referred the approach to be 'comprehensive' and construct an analytical system that let us do so. The system acts as a gigantic machine with numerous instruments glued by analytical methods and disciplined people. The disciplines and samples would be taken over to the next generation to sustain our science.

We work as a team and prefer arguments scientifically.

LATEST NEWS
Unravelling the chemical evolution of terrestrial planets in the early solar system: evidence from the isotopic composition of silicon and oxygen, which make up half of the Earth's mass

05/28/2021

Terrestrial planets in our solar system formed in the protoplanetary disk about 4.6 billion years ago. As the disk cooled, planetesimals and planetary embryos formed, and they repeatedly collided and grew, eventually forming terrestrial planets. Since primitive meteorites contain primitive dust and fragments of planetesimals, analysis of these materials can provide direct information on the formation process of terrestrial planets..

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太陽系の惑星は約46億年前，ガスと塵からなる原始太陽系円盤から形成されました．原始太陽系円盤が冷却するに従い，微惑星が形成され，これらが衝突や成長を繰り返し，やがて地球を含む惑星が形成されました．始原的隕石には，このような初期太陽系で形成された塵や微惑星のかけらが含まれていることから，これらを分析することにより，惑星の形成過程や，惑星を構成する物質の化学組成を実証的に知ることができます．．．

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Our collaborating University of New South Wales in Australia invites applications for an academic position in the Earth Sciences.

2/16/2022

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We have released a video of a talk event held at Space Science World "Hoshitori Prefecture".

10/22/2021

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Space Science World Hoshitori Prefecture (Part2) -Ryugu sample observation experience-

07/07/2021

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Space Science World Hoshitori Prefecture (Part1) -Ryugu sample observation experience-

07/06/2021

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On July 4, we will hold a talk event on the space Science World. - Stone of the asteroid "Ryugu" brought back by Hayabusa2 -

07/02/2021

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New Multi-functional automated organic sample preparation system (MAOSPS) has been installed at PML!

05/21/2021

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Msc. Hidehisa Tsuchida has joined CASTEM24Remote team as a Science + Techniques coordinator

05/14/2021

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

2022


Gray E. Bebout, Tsutomu Ota, Takuya Kunihiro, William D. Carlson, Eizo Nakamura. Lithium in garnet as a tracer of subduction zone metamorphic reactions: The record in ultrahigh-pressure metapelites at Lago di Cignana, Italy, Geosphere (2022).

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Atsushi Nakao, Shiori Uno, Ryoji Tanaka and Junta Yanai . Mineralogical Factors Controlling the Ability to Retain 137Cs in Andosols in Japan, In: Nanba, K., Konoplev, A., Wada, T. (eds) Behavior of Radionuclides in the Environment III. Springer, Singapore, pp 365–375 (2022).

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M. P. Nikitczuk, G. E. Bebout, T. Ota, T. Kunihiro, J. F. Mustard, R. L. Flemming, R. Tanaka, S. A. Halldórsson, E. Nakamura. Nitrogenous Altered Volcanic Glasses as Targets for Mars Sample Return: Examples From Antarctica and Iceland, Advancing Earth and Space Science, 127(2), e2021JE007052 (2022).

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SEMINAR, SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOP

2021-2022


January 25, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Wei Zhang

October 12, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Havishk Tripathi

October 5, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Wei Zhang

September 28, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Rahul Kumar

September 21, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Nurcan Kucukarslan

September 7, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Dilan Ratnayake

August 24, 10:00 AM in 3F Seminar Room
Seminar by Avramescu Maya-Liliana



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