Core Formation in the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite Parent Body (Vesta)

Details Core Formation in the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite Parent Body (Vesta) Core Formation in the Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite Parent Body (Vesta)

Jan 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996eiaf.conf...17n&link_type=abstract

Workshop on Evolution of Igneous Asteroids: Focus on Vesta and the HED Meterorites, p. 17

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Achondrites, Basalt, Meteoritic Composition, Vesta Asteroid, Cores, Hubble Space Telescope, Crusts, Siderites

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Recent images of Vesta by the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that Vesta may be a surprisingly diverse world with an exposed mantle, basaltic crust, and impact basins. A large amount of evidence points to Vesta as being the source of the howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) clan of achondrite meteorites. The study of the differentiated meteorites provides clues to the origin and evolution of asteroid parent bodies and the heat sources that melted them. Such bodies may have also represented planetary building blocks in the inner solar system. This work describes problems involving core formation and the igneous evolution of the HED parent body as constrained by the abundances of the siderophile elements.

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