Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009apj...705..791r&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 705, Issue 1, pp. 791-797 (2009).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Comets: General, Dust, Extinction, Ism: Abundances, Methods: Laboratory
Scientific paper
Amorphization of crystalline olivine to glass with a pyroxene composition is well known from high-energy irradiation experiments. This report is on the first natural occurrence of this process preserved in a chondritic aggregate interplanetary dust particle. The Fe-rich olivine grain textures and compositions and the glass grain compositions delineate this transformation that yielded glass with Fe-rich pyroxene compositions. The average glass composition, (Mg, Fe)3Si2O7, is a serpentine-dehydroxylate with O/Si = 3.56 ± 0.25, (Mg+Fe)/Si = 1.53 ± 0.24, and Mg/(Mg+Fe) = 0.74 ± 0.1. These measured atomic ratios match the ratios that have been proposed for amorphous interstellar silicate grains very well, albeit the measured Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratio is lower than was proposed for amorphous interstellar silicate grains, Mg/(Mg+Fe) > 0.9.
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