Darkening in gas-rich ordinary chondrites: Spectral modelling and implications for the regoliths of ordinary chondrite parent bodies

Details Darkening in gas-rich ordinary chondrites: Spectral modelling and implications for the regoliths of ordinary chondrite parent bodies Darkening in gas-rich ordinary chondrites: Spectral modelling and implications for the regoliths of ordinary chondrite parent bodies

Jun 1991

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In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 265-266 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)

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Chondrites, Darkening, Infrared Radiation, Reflectance, Regolith, Spectra, Spectrum Analysis, Asteroids, Exposure, Slopes, Troilite

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The dark fine grained matrix of gas-rich ordinary chondrites replicates many of the physical, morphological, and spectral characteristics of the highly shocked and optically altered black chondrites. Spectral mixture modeling shows that the darkening and spectral attenuation seen in the dark matrix can be simulated with realistic mass fractions of light host material and black chondritic material. All these factors point to the conclusion that the dark matrix of gas-rich ordinary chondrites is dark due to the same processes that darkens black chondrites, shock distributed small particle size FeNi metal and troilite. Because the darkening is not seen in any of the non-gas-rich light portions and is only seen in the gas rich grains of the meteorite, the shock darkening would have to occur as part of the matrix's exposure to regolith processes. Since all gas-rich grains are darkened, it follows that darkening is not only common, but pervasive in asteroidal regoliths. These results imply that the upper, optically active layer of an ordinary chondrite parent body should have the spectral characteristics of a black chondrite, which are a dark, relatively featureless spectrum with modest red slope in the infrared. These are the characteristics of special type C asteroids.

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