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B. K. Chattopadhyay, J.N. Goswami, S.V.S. Murty, A.P. Thapliyal, J.B. Ghosh, P.N. Shukla, A.D. Shukla, P.K. Mondal, N.C. Pant and N. Sinha (2004), Meteorite falls over India during 2003: Petrographic and chemical characterization and cosmogenic records, Current Science, 88, 774-778.
Banerjee D. and Dewangan A., Simulation of the cosmic-ray induced dose-rate within a Martian soil profile, Radiation Measurements, doi 10.1016/j.radmeas.2008.02.022., 2008.
Banerjee D. and Gasnault O., Hard-X rays and low-energy gamma-rays from the Moon: Dependence of the continuum on the regolith composition and the solar activity, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JE003046, 2008.
Banerjee D., Mahalingam V. and Panda D. K., TL sensitivity of single chondrules from type 3 chondrites: Thermal metamorphism of chondrules in a nebular environment? Radiation Measurements, doi 10.1016/j.radmeas.2007.11.021., 2007.
Banerjee D., Thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence signals from volcanic ash: History of volcanism in Barren Island, Andaman Sea, Quaternary Geochronology, doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2009.01.011, 2009.
Baroni M., Savarino J., Cole-Dai J., Rai V. K., Thiemens M. H., (2008) Mass-independent sulfur isotopic compositions of volcanic sulfate recorded in Antarctic ice cores over the last millennium. Journal of Geophysical Research (Atm) 113, D20112, doi: 1029/2008JD010185.
D. Dhingra, N. Bhandari, P.N. Shukla, G. Lashkari, S.V.S. Murty, R.R. Mahajan, G.M. Ballabh, G. Parthasarathy and A.D. Shukla (2004), Spectacular fall of the Kendrapara H5 Chondrite, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 39, A121-132.
Das, J.P., and Murty, S.V.S., 2008, Nitrogen isotopes in chondrules: Signatures of precursors and formation processes, Current Science, v. 94, p. 485-489.
Das J. P. and Murty S. V. S. (2009), "Trapped nitrogen in individual chondrules: Nature of chondrule precursors and clues to formation mechanisms. Journal Geophys. Res. 114, E01008, doi:10.1029/2008JE003232.
Das J. P. and Murty S. V. S. (2009), "Cosmogenic and trapped noble gases in individual chondrules: Clues to chondrule formation", Meteorite Planet Sci. 44, 1797-1818.
Durga Prasad D. and Murty S. V. S. (2009), "LABNET A WSN based lab automation and control network", Journal of Instrument Society of India 39, 172-175.
Durga Prasad K. and Murty S. V. S. (2011), "Wireless sensor networks A potential tool to probe for water on Moon", Adv. Space Res. 48, 601-612.
Frank J. Stadermann, Peter Hoppe, Christine Floss, Philipp R. Heck, Friedrich Horz, Joachim Huth, Anton T. Kearsley, Jan Leitner, Kuljeet K. Marhas, Kevin D. McKeegan, and Thomas Stephan (2008) Stardust in STARDUST - the C, N, and O isotopic compositions of Wild 2 cometary matter in Al foil impacts. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 299-313.
Goswami J. N., Banerjee D., Bhandari N., Shanmugam M., Acharya Y. B., Subhedar D. V., Sharma M. R., Umapathy C. N., Sreekumar P., Sudhakar M., Abraham L. and Agrawal P. C. (2005), High Energy X-ray Spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 Mission to the Moon, Journal of Earth System Science, 114, 733-738.
Goswami J. N. and Murty S. V. S. (2009), "Planetary Sciences and Exploration: An Indian Perspective", In Current Trends in Science by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, pp 457-476.
Grossman L. , Simon S. B. , Rai V. K., Thiemens M. H., Hutcheon I. D., Williams R. W. , Galy A., Ding T., Fedkin A. V., Clayton R. N., Mayeda T. K. (2008) Primordial compositions of refractory inclusions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 3001–3021.
Jadhav M., Amari S., Marhas K. K., Zinner E., Maruoka T., Gallino R. (2008) New stellar sources for high-density, presolar graphite grains. The Astrophysical Journal 682, 1479.
J.N. Goswami, D. Banerjee, N. Bhandari, M. Shanmugam, Y.B. Acharya, D.V. Subhedar, M.R. Sharma, C.N. Umapathy, P. Sreekumar, M. Sudhakar, L. Abraham and P.C. Agrawal (2005), High Energy X-? ray Spectrometer on the Chandrayaan-1 Mission to the Moon, J. Earth Syst. Sci., 114, No.6, 733-738.
Kearsley A. T., Borg J., Graham G. A., Burchell M. J., Cole M. J., Leroux H., Bridges J. C., Horz F., Wozniakiewicz P. J., Bland P. A., Bradley J. P., Dai Z. R., Teslich N., See T., Hoppe P., Heck P. R., Huth J., Stadermann F. J., Floss C., Marhas K., Stephan T., and Leitner J. (2008) Dust from comet Wild 2: Interpreting particle size, shape, structure and composition from impact features on the Stardust aluminum foils. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 41-73.
Kusuma K. N., Sebastian N. and Murty S. V. S. (2012), "Geochemical and mineralogical analysis of Gruithuisen regionon Moon using M3 and DIVINER images. Planet. Space Sci. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2012.02.012.
Marhas K. K., Amari S., Gyngard F. Zinner E. and Gallino R. (2008) Iron and nickel isotopic ratios in presolar SiC grains. The Astrophysical letters 689, 622- 645.
Mather T. A., McCabe J. R., Rai V. K., Thiemens M. H., Pyle D. M., Heaton T. H. E., Sloane H. J. and Fern G. (2006) Oxygen and sulfur isotopic composition of volcanic sulfate aerosol at the point of emission. J. Geophys. Res. (Atm), 111, D18205.
Murty S. V. S., Basu S. and Anilkumar (2007), "Noble gases in South Indian carbonatites: Trapped and in situ components", J. Asian Earth Sci. 30, 154-169 (doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2006.08.004).
Murty S. V. S., Mahajan R. R., Jenniskens P., Shaddad M. and Beder E. (2010), "Noble gases and nitrogen in the Almahata Sitta ureilite. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 45, 1751-1764.
Murty S. V. S., Shyam Lal, Mahajan K. K. and Bhardwaj A. (2010), "Evolution and composition of planetary atmospheres", in Modeling of Planetary Atmospheres (Ed. S. A. Haider et al.) by Mcmillan Publishers India Ltd. Pp 1-82.
N. Bhandari, S.V.S. Murty, P.N. Shukla, R.R. Mahajan, A.D. Shukla, K.M. Suthar, G. Parthasarathy, B.S. Paltiwal (2005), Bhawad LL6 Chondrite: Chemistry, petrology, noble gases, nuclear tracks and cosmogenic radionuclides, Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences, 40, 1015-1022.
N. Bhandari, S. V. S. Murty, P. N.Shukla , R. R. Mahajan, A. D. Shukla, G. Lashkari, M. S.Sisodia , R. P.Tripathi, G. Parthasarathy , H. C. Verma and I.A.Franchi (2008), "Ararki (L5) chondrite : first meteorite find in Thar desert of India", Meteorit. Planet Sci. 43.
P.N. Shukla, A.D. Shukla, V.K. Rai, S.V.S. Murty, N. Bhandari and J.N. Goswami, A.C. Mazumdar, P. Phukon, K. Duorah, R.E. Greenwood and I.A. Franchi (2005), Dergaon (H5) chondrite : Fall, classification, petrological and chemical characteristics, cosmogenic effects and noble gas records, Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 40, 627-637.
Rai V. K. and Thiemens M. H. (2007) Mass Independently Fractionated Sulfur Components in Primitive Chondrites. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 71, 1341-1354.
Rai V. K., Jackson T. L. and Thiemens M. H. (2005) Photochemical Mass Independent Sulfur in Achondrites. Science 309, 1062-1065.
Ratan K. Mohapatra, Susanne P. Schwenzer, Siegfried Herrmann, S. V. S Murty, Ulrich Ott and Jamie D. Gilmour (2009), "Noble gases and nitrogen in Martian meteorites Dar al Gani 476, Sayh al Uhaymir 005 and Lewis Cliff 88516: EFA and extra neon", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., 73, 1505-1522.
Rudraswami, N.G., and Goswami, J.N., 2007, "26A1 in Chondrules from unequilibrated L chondrites: Onset and duration of chondrule formation in the early solar system," Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 257, p. 231-244.
Sreekumar P., Acharya Y. B., Umapathy C. N., Ramakrishna Sharma M., Shanmugam, Tyagi A., Kumar, Vadawale S., Sudhakar M., Abraham L., Kulkani R., Purohit S., Premlatha R. L., Banerjee D., Bug M. and Goswami J. N., High Energy X-ray Spectrometer on Chandrayaan-1, Current Science, 96, 320-325, 2009.
Westphal A. J. et al. (2008) Discovery of non-random spatial distribution of impacts in the Stardust cometary collector. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 43, 415- 429.
Yokoyama T., Rai V. K., Alexander C. M., Oae D., Lewis R. S., Carlson R. W., Shirey S. B., Thiemens M. H., Walker R. J. (2007) Osmium isotope evidence for uniform distribution of s- and r-process components in the early solar system. Earth and Planetary Science Letter, 259, 567-580.