Core formation in the shergottite parent body and comparison with the earth

Details Core formation in the shergottite parent body and comparison with the earth Core formation in the shergottite parent body and comparison with the earth

Mar 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....92..627t&link_type=abstract

(Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA, AAS, et al., Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 17th, Houston, TX, Mar. 17-21, 1986)

Physics

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Meteoritic Composition, Mineralogy, Planetary Cores, Terrestrial Planets, Abundance, Liquid Metals, Metallicity, Planetary Evolution, Planetary Mantles

Scientific paper

Abundances of elements in shergottite, nakhlite, and Chassigny meteorites which originated on a single planet, the shergottite parent body (SPB), were examined with the aim of elucidating the chemical conditions of metal separation and core formation in the SPB and of testing present models of planetary core formation. Using partition coefficients and the SPB mantle composition determined in earlier studies, the abundances of Ag, Au, Co, Ga, Mo, Ni, P, Re, S, and W were modeled, with free parameters being oxygen fugacity, proportion of solid metal formed, proportion of metallic liquid formed, and proportion of silicate that is molten. It is shown that the abundances of all elements (except Mo) could be reproduced using models with these four free parameters. In contrast to the SPB, an equivalent model used to predict element abundances in the earth's mantle was shown by Jones and Drake (1986) to be inadequate; there is at present no hypothesis capable of quantitatively reproducing the elemental abundances of the earth's mantle. The contrast suggests that these two terrestrial planets (assuming that the SPB is Mars) may have accreted or differentiated differently.

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