Silicon in Mars' Core: A Prediction Based on Mars Model Using Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes in SNC Meteorites

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Jan 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002usnc.conf...39m&link_type=abstract

Unmixing the SNCs: Chemical, Isotopic, and Petrologic Components of the Martian Meteorites, p. 39-40

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Mathematical Models, Silicon, Snc Meteorites, Mars (Planet), Planetary Geology, Nitrogen Isotopes, Oxygen Isotopes, Planetary Cores, Chondrites, Chemical Composition, Moments Of Inertia, Isotopic Labeling, Melting

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Chemical and (oxygen) isotopic compositions of SNC meteorites have been used by a number of workers to infer the nature of precursor materials for the accretion of Mars. The idea that chondritic materials played a key role in the formation of Mars has been the central assumption in these works. Wanke and Dreibus have proposed a mixture of two types of chondritic materials, differing in oxygen fugacity but having CI type bulk chemical composition for the nonvolatile elements, for Mars' precursor. But a number of studies based on high pressure and temperature melting experiments do not favor a CI type bulk planet composition for Mars, as it predicts a bulk planet Fe/Si ratio much higher than that reported from the recent Pathfinder data. Oxygen forms the bulk of Mars (approximately 40% by wt.) and might provide clues to the type of materials that formed Mars. But models based on the oxygen isotopic compositions of SNC meteorites predict three different mixtures of precursor materials for Mars: 90% H + 10% CM, 85% H + 11% CV + 4% CI and 45% EH + 55% H. As each of these models has been shown to be consistent with the bulk geophysical properties (such as mean density, and moment of inertia factor) of Mars, the nature of the material that accreted to form Mars remains ambiguous.

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