Markus Patzek

Markus Patzek

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

T: +49 251 83-33606

Academic Profiles
Research Foci
  • Development of a 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

Prize

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

  • , , , , , , , , , , and . “Payload Selection Scheme for a Fast-Response Planetary Defense Scouting Mission: The Satis CubeSat Study.” Preprint. Advances in Astronomy 2026 (1): 114. doi: 10.1155/aa/2095618.
  • , , , , , , , , and . . “Kindberg, the fifth meteorite fall in Austria: A weakly shocked L6 chondrite breccia with high‐pressure phases.Meteoritics and Planetary Science 61 (1): 1738. doi: 10.1111/maps.70072.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Drelów, the 13th and latest meteorite fall in Poland—A typical L6 chondrite with shock veins.Meteoritics 61 (3): 466486. doi: 10.1111/maps.70106.

  • , , , , , , , , , and . . “Multi-isotope (N, O, Ti, and Cr) study of C1 and CM-like clasts—Probing unsampled C1 material.Meteoritics and Planetary Science 60 (5): 10731094. doi: 10.1111/maps.14343.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . “Low-Temperature Aqueous Alteration of Chondrites.Space Science Reviews 221 11. doi: 10.1007/s11214-024-01132-8.
  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “The fall of the Haag (LL4-6) chondrite breccia—Just 8 years after the nearby fall Stubenberg (LL6).Meteoritics and Planetary Science 60 (11): 26762702. doi: 10.1111/maps.70060.
  • , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Matera: A not so ordinary H5 chondrite breccia with very low density and high porosity.Meteoritics and Planetary Science 60 (9): 21252148. doi: 10.1111/maps.70025.

  • , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history.Meteoritics and Planetary Science 59 (10): 26602694. doi: 10.1111/maps.14245.
  • , , , , 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 . . “Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history.Meteoritics and Planetary Science 59 (10): 26602694. doi: 10.1111/maps.14245.

  • , , , , , , 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.
  • , , , , , , , , , , and . . “Heterogeneous nature of the carbonaceous chondrite breccia Aguas Zarcas--Cosmochemical characterization and origin of new carbonaceous chondrite lithologies.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 334: 155186. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.07.010.
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 and 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.
  • , , , and . . “The old, unique C1 chondrite Flensburg - insight into the first processes of aqueous alteration, brecciation, and the diversity of water-bearing parent bodies and lithologies.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 293: 142186. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.10.014.
Conference Contributions
Research Article in Edited Proceeding (Conference)
  • , , , , , 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
Abstract in a Digital Collection (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..
Abstract in a Digital Collection (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 and 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.
Conference Contributions
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 . “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
Abstract in a Digital Collection (Conferences)
  • , , , , 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

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.
Conference Contributions
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 . “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, Science 53 Planetary 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.
Abstract in a Digital Collection (Conferences)
  • , , and . “A remarkable and well-rounded Zn-CAI in the CO3 chondrite Dar al Gani 083.” in Vol.53 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53

Research Article (Journal)
  • , , , , 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 PanethKolloquium/2017/0043.pdf http://www.paneth.eu/.
  • , , , , 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 Article in Edited Proceeding (Conference)
  • , , and . “New Volatile-Rich Clasts from Brecciated Chondrites and Achondrites.” contribution to the 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Berlin
Abstract in a Digital Collection (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 Society Meteoritical.
  • . “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