Chondrule-like objects and brown glasses in howardites

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Sep 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990metic..25..187o&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics (ISSN 0026-1114), vol. 25, Sept. 1990, p. 187-194.

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Chondrule, Grain Size, Meteoritic Composition, Olivine, Crystallinity, Electron Microscopy, Inclusions

Scientific paper

Chondrulelike objects and brown glasses were analyzed in the howardites, Bununu, Malvern, Monticello, Pavlovka, and Yamato 7308. The objects are very similar to chondrules in ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites. Like the brown glasses, the chondrulelike objects could have been produced by impact melting that left some crystalline nuclei, followed by a slower cooling rate than for the glasses. Alternatively, these objects are chondrules implanted from chondrite impactors. They are, however, without rims or any adhering matrix. The brown glasses appear to represent melting of average regolithic surface material, except for Monticello and Y7308, both of which have some siliceous glasses. The siliceous glasses could not have been produced by vapor fractionation but by melting of differentiated lithologies such as fayalitic granites. Impact mechanics indicates that howardites with abundant brown glasses came from an asteroid larger than Vesta (greater than 400 km radius), upon which impacts occurred at relative velocities of up to 5 km/s. Howardites with little or no brown glasses came from a smaller parent body. It is concluded that at least two parent bodies are likely sources for the basaltic achondrites.

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