Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Oct 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004gecoa..68.4007w&link_type=abstract
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 68, Issue 19, p. 4007-4021.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
This study attempts to identify the astrophysical setting in which properties of the Ca,Al-rich inclusions (CAIs) found in chondritic meteorites are best understood. Importance is attached to the short time period in which most or all of the CAIs were formed (<˜0.5 Myr, corresponding to the observed dispersion of values of initial 26Al/27Al about the canonical value of ˜5 × 10-5), a constraint that has been overlooked. This period is dissimilar to the time scale of evolution of T Tauri stars, ˜10 Myr; it corresponds instead to the time scale of Class 0 and Class I young stellar objects, protostars as they exist during the massive infall of interstellar material that creates stars. The innermost portion of the sun’s rapidly accreting nebular disk, kept hot during that period by viscous dissipation, is the most plausible site for CAI formation. Once condensed, CAIs must be taken out of that hot zone rather promptly in order to preserve their specialized mineralogical compositions, and they must be transported to the radial distance of the asteroid belt to be available for accretion into the chondrites that contain them today. Though this paper is critical of some aspects of the x-wind model of CAI formation, something akin to the x-wind may be the best way of understanding this extraction and transport of CAIs.
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