On the aerodynamic redistribution of chondrite components in protoplanetary disks

Details On the aerodynamic redistribution of chondrite components in protoplanetary disks On the aerodynamic redistribution of chondrite components in protoplanetary disks

2012-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/1204.4337v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

13 pages, 6 figures, accepted to Icarus

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Despite being all roughly of solar composition, primitive meteorites (chondrites) present a diversity in their chemical, isotopic and petrographic properties, and in particular a first-order dichotomy between carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous chondrites. We investigate here analytically the dynamics of their components (chondrules, refractory inclusions, metal/sulfide and matrix grains) in protoplanetary disks prior to their incorporation in chondrite parent bodies. We find the dynamics of the solids, subject to gas drag, to be essentially controlled by the "gas-solid decoupling parameter" $S\equiv \textrm{St}/\alpha$, the ratio of the dimensionless stopping time to the turbulence parameter. The decoupling of the solid particles relative to the gas is significant when $S$ exceeds unity. $S$ is expected to increase with time and heliocentric distance. On the basis of (i) abundance of refractory inclusions (ii) proportion of matrix (iii) lithophile element abundances and (iv) oxygen isotopic composition of chondrules, we propose that non-matrix chondritic components had $S<1$ when carbonaceous chondrites accreted and $S>1$ when the other chondrites accreted. This suggests that accretion of carbonaceous chondrites predated on average that of the other chondrites and that refractory inclusions are genetically related to their host carbonaceous chondrites.

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