Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept..525a&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 525-528 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Impact Tests, Implantation, Meteorite Collisions, Meteorites, Planetary Evolution, Protoplanets, Rare Gases, Shock Tests, Volatility, Activated Carbon, Amino Acids, Amorphous Materials, Carbon, Gabbro, Glass, Graphite, Limestone, Murchison Meteorite, Surface Ionization
Scientific paper
As impact cratered terrains have been successively recognized on certain planets and planetary satellites, it has become clear that impact processes are important to the understanding of the accretion and evolution of all solid planets. The noble gases in the normalized atmospheric inventories of the planets and the normalized gas content of meteorites are grossly similar, but demonstrate differences from each other which are not understood. In order to study shock devolatilization of the candidate carrier phases which are principally thought to be carbonaceous or hydrocarbons in planetesimals, experiments were conducted on noble gase implantation in various carbons: carbon black, activated charcoal, graphite, and carbon glass. These were candidate starting materials for impact devolatilization experiments. Initial experiments were conducted on vitreous amorphous carbon samples which were synthesized under vapor saturated conditions using argon as the pressurizing medium. An amino acid and surface analysis by laser ionization analyses were performed on three samples of shocked Murchison meteorite. A first study was completed in which a series of shock loading experiments on a porous limestone and on a non-porous gabbro in one and three dimensions were performed. Also a series of recovery experiments were conducted in which shocked molten basalt a 1700 C is encapsulated in molybdenum containers and shock recovered from up to 6 GPa pressures.
Ahrens Thomas J.
Becker Robert
Cronin R.
Duffy T.
Gazis Carey
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