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Sep 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995metic..30q.521h&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics, vol. 30, no. 5, page 521
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Asteroids, B, C, Davida, F, G, Hydration, Infrared, Ir, Metamorphism, Thermal, Meteorites, B-7904, Ci, Cm, Cv, Murchison, Vigarano, Yamato 82162, Yamato 86720, Reflectance Spectra, Water
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Thermal metamorphism study of the C (including G, B, and F) asteroids [1] is revisited using their selected reflectance spectra (0.3-3.6 micrometers) [2]. Laboratory spectra of some carbonaceous chondrites and heated Murchison samples [3] have been also measured for comparison. Both CI1 and CM2 meteorites have a characteristic 3-micrometer hydration band [4] at various strengths, and most CM2 meteorites also have 0.7, 0.9, and 1.1-micrometer bands due to ferric/ferrous Fe in septechlorites (Fig. 1). The unusual CI/CM meteorites (Y-86720, B-7904, Y-82162, etc.) that have evidence of thermal metamorphism have no 0.7-micrometer band but still have a weak 3-micrometer band. The 3-micrometer band of heated Murchison samples is gradually reduced for samples heated up to 500 degrees C and gone around 600 degrees C. The 0.7-micrometer band is gone even before 400 degrees C. The 3-micrometer band strengths of the unusual CI/CM meteorites correspond to the heating temperature between 500 and 600 degrees C if the process was similar to the Murchison heating experiment. None of the C asteroids have both the 3-micrometer band strength and overall spectral profile comparable to the common CI/CM meteorites studied here. Among the seven selected asteroids, only two have a meteorite counterpart over this wavelength range. Asteroid 511 Davida and B-7904 are the best counterparts in both spectral shape and brightness (Fig. 1). Existence of the unusual CI/CM meteorites suggests that there were their parent bodies that contained water (ice) at appropriate temperatures over sufficient time to induce aqueous alteration and were subsequently heated up to 500-600 degrees C. It has been recently suggested that some dark inclusions of Vigarano (CV3) experienced extensive aqueous alteration followed by complete dehydration and recrystallization [5]. Since dark inclusions are common in all CV3 meteorites, aqueous alteration and late-stage heating may have been widespread on the CV3 parent bodies. Because common CI/CM meteorites are spectrally different from any of the observed asteroids, those meteorites must have come from another asteroid population, assuming the asteroid surfaces are not significantly altered by space weathering. CI/CM meteorites may have come from smaller unobservable asteroids or the lost outer portions of asteroids, which escaped extensive heating events. Acknowledgments: Antarctic meteorites were loaned from National Institute of Polar Research and Meteorite Working Group. Laboratory reflectance spectra were measured at RELAB operated under NASA grant NAGW-748. Asteroidal 3-micrometer reflectance spectra were taken from SOARD database. This research was supported in part by NASA grant NAG 9-48 to M. L. and the NASA Origins of Solar Systems Program to M. Z. References: [1] Hiroi T. et al. (1993) Science, 261, 1016-1018; Hiroi T. et al. (1994) Proc. NIPR Symp. Antarct. Meteorites, 7, 230-243. [2] Zellner B. et al. (1985) Icarus, 61, 355-416; Bell J. F. et al. (1988) LPS XIX, 57-58; Jones T. D. et al. (1990) Icarus, 88, 172-192. [3] Matza S. D. and Lipschutz M. E. (1977) Proc. LSC 8th, 161-176. [4] Miyamoto M. and Zolensky M. E. (1994) Meteoritics, 29, 849-853. [5] Kojima H. et al. (1993) Meteoritics, 28, 649-658.
Hiroi Takahiro
Lipschutz Michael E.
Pieters Carlé M.
Zolensky Michael E.
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