Organic Globules in the Tagish Lake Meteorite: Remnants of the Protosolar Disk

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006sci...314.1439n&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 314, Issue 5804, pp. 1439-1442 (2006).

Physics

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Coordinated transmission electron microscopy and isotopic measurements of organic globules in the Tagish Lake meteorite shows that they have elevated ratios of nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 (1.2 to 2 times terrestrial) and of deuterium to hydrogen (2.5 to 9 times terrestrial). These isotopic anomalies are indicative of mass fractionation during chemical reactions at extremely low temperatures (10 to 20 kelvin), characteristic of cold molecular clouds and the outer protosolar disk. The globules probably originated as organic ice coatings on preexisting grains that were photochemically processed into refractory organic matter. The globules resemble cometary carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen (CHON) particles, suggesting that such grains were important constituents of the solar system starting materials.

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