Cooling Rates of Diogenites: A Study of Fe(2+)-Mg Ordering in Orthopyroxene by X-Ray Single-Crystal Diffraction

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Achondrites, Asteroids, Chromites, Cooling, Meteoritic Composition, Pyroxenes, Vesta Asteroid, Volcanology, Crystal Growth, Feldspars, Olivine, Phosphates, X Ray Diffraction, Crystallography

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Diogenites are either breccias or recrystallized breccias consisting almost entirely of orthopyroxene, sometimes with minor olivine and chromite and traces of silica, plagioclase, troilite, metal, and phosphates. A remarkable feature is the very homogeneous major-element composition of diogenite orthopyroxenes. Diogenites, together with howardites and eucrites, are assumed to come from a single parent body (HED), probably asteroid 4 Vesta, that consists of a diogenitic mantle and an eucritic crust whose thickness has been estimated to be not less than 10 km The purpose of this work was to use single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) and kinetic analysis of Fe2 +- Mg ordering in orthopyroxene to obtain additional information on the thermal history of the HED parent body. The ordering of Fe2+ and Mg between the two crystallographic M1 and M2 sites is temperature, time, and composition dependent and provides a means of determining cooling rates.

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