Evidence for the presence of planetesimal material among the precursors of magnesian chondrules of nebular origin

Details Evidence for the presence of planetesimal material among the precursors of magnesian chondrules of nebular origin Evidence for the presence of planetesimal material among the precursors of magnesian chondrules of nebular origin

Feb 2007

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Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 254, Issue 1-2, p. 1-8.

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Chondrules are the major high-temperature components of chondritic meteorites, which are conventionally viewed as the samples from the very first generation of undifferentiated planetesimals. Growing evidences from long- and short-lived radionuclide chronologies indicate however that chondrite parent asteroids accreted after or contemporaneously with igneous activities on differentiated asteroids, questioning the pristine nature of chondrites. Here we report a discovery of metal-bearing olivine aggregates with granoblastic textures inside magnesian porphyritic (Type I) chondrules from the CV carbonaceous chondrite Vigarano. Formation of the granoblastic textures requires sintering and prolonged, high-temperature (> 1000 °C) annealing — conditions which are not expected in the solar nebula during chondrule formation, but could have been achieved on parent bodies of olivine-rich differentiated or thermally metamorphosed meteorites. The mineralogy and petrography of the metal-olivine aggregates thus indicate that they are relict, dunite-like lithic fragments which resulted from fragmentation of such bodies. The very old Pb Pb absolute ages and Al Mg relative model ages of bulk CV chondrules suggest that such planetesimals may have formed as early as the currently accepted age of the Solar System (4567.2 ± 0.6 Ma).

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