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Oct 2010
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Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Volume 45, Issue 1771, pp. 1771-1777.
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Nine ureilitic fragments of the anomalous polymict ureilite Almahata Sitta have been analyzed for their Cr isotopic compositions. All the samples, including both nonmagnetic and magnetic portions, show essentially the same ɛ54Cr deficit (-0.77 ± 0.10), relative to the terrestrial Cr standard. This contrasts with the variable positive 54Cr anomalies observed for carbonaceous chondrites, but agrees with the values measured for eucrites, diogenites, and mesosiderites (Trinquier et al. 2007). This implies that, contrary to previous suggestions based on O isotopes, ureilites were not derived from any known carbonaceous chondrite parent body. Instead, the Almahata Sitta parent body may have accreted in a nebular region/environment similar to that of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) parent body. In addition, the lack of variation in ɛ54Cr combined with variable O isotopic compositions in the meteorite fragments suggests that whatever process(es) caused the O isotopic heterogeneity of the solar system was probably not responsible for heterogeneity in ɛ54Cr. The samples show resolvable variations in ɛ53Cr (0.15-0.41) that are correlated with Mn/Cr ratios, suggesting that live 53Mn was present at the time of formation of Almahata Sitta. The isochron yields an initial 53Mn/55Mn value of 3.1 (±1.1) × 10-6, corresponding to an age of 4563.6 ± (2.2) Ma when related to U-Pb and Mn-Cr data for the D'Orbigny angrite. This age is consistent with the Mn-Cr and Al-Mg ages of two other polymict ureilites (Goodrich et al. 2010). Magmatic activity on the ureilites' parent body seems to have postdated the formation of refractory inclusions by approximately 4-5 Ma.
Carlson Richard W.
Jenniskens Peter
O'D. Alexander Conel M.
Qin Liping
Rumble Douglas
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