Large-scale melting and impact mixing on early-formed asteroids: evidence from high-precision oxygen isotope studies

Bidragets oversatte titel: Opsmeltning og Impact mixing af tidlige asteroider.

Richard Greenwood, J.-A. Barrat, Edward Robert Dalton Scott, Ian A. Franchi, Akira Yamaguchi, J. M. Gibson, Henning Haack, C. A. Lorenz, Marina A. Ivanova, Alex Bevan

    Abstract

    Large-scale melting of asteroids and planetesimals is now known to have taken place ex-tremely early in solar system history [1]. The first-generation bodies produced by this process would have been subject to rapid collisional reprocessing, leading in most cases to fragmentation and/or accretion into larger-sized bodies [2]. Achondritic meteorites provide a unique source of information about the nature of these early events. However, the fragmentary character of this record makes it difficult to interpret. High-precision oxygen isotope analysis has proved to be an important technique in understanding the relationship between the different groups of achondrites [3, 4].
    Here we present new oxygen isotope evidence con-cerning the role of large-scale melting and subsequent impact mixing in the evolution of three important achondrite groups: the main-group pallasites, meso-siderites and HEDs.
    Bidragets oversatte titelOpsmeltning og Impact mixing af tidlige asteroider.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    Publikationsdato15 mar. 2013
    Antal sider2
    StatusUdgivet - 15 mar. 2013
    Begivenhed44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference - Houston, USA
    Varighed: 18 mar. 201322 mar. 2013
    Konferencens nummer: 44

    Konference

    Konference44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
    Nummer44
    Land/OmrådeUSA
    ByHouston
    Periode18/03/201322/03/2013

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