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Dec 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011sosyr..45..515t&link_type=abstract
Solar System Research, Volume 45, Issue 6, pp.515-522
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A parent body of the Lovina meteorite underwent processes which yielded dentritic structures of taenite in phosphide-sulfide-metal matrix unusual for iron meteorites. Similar dendritic structures can be found also in IIE meteorites as microinclusions but are unknown in other iron meteorites. The similarity between dendritic structures in the Lovina meteorite and metal-phosphide inclusions in IIE iron meteorites implies similar processes which led to their crystallization from molten materials in chambers of various sizes. Studying physical and chemical crystallization parameters of metal-phosphide inclusions in the Elga meteorite (IIE) makes it feasible to estimate the p-T conditions required for the unique Lovina meteorite to have formed. It is shown that dendrites in the Lovina meteorite may have been crystallized from molten materials close in composition to P-FeNi and P-S-FeNi that are produced when phosphides and sulfides melt locally in metals as a result of impact events with subsequent fast cooling. The temperature of homogeneous melting is likely to have been more than 1450°C, and the starting temperature of crystallization of such molten materials is estimated to have been between 1050 and 1150°C. The cooling rate of inclusions can be estimated to be 10-3 °C s-1, based on the structural and chemical concordance between samples obtained experimentally (Chabot et al., 2000) and metal-phosphide inclusions (P-FeNi and P-S-FeNi) in the Elga meteorite. Large-sized dendrites in the Lovina meteorite imply cooling rates that are considerably less than 10-3 °C s-1.
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