Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres across

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May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006natur.441..483c&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 441, Issue 7092, pp. 483-485 (2006).

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Chondrules are millimetre-sized spherules (mostly silicate) that dominate the texture of primitive meteorites. Their formation mechanism is debated, but their sheer abundance suggests that the mechanism was both energetic and ubiquitous in the early inner Solar System. The processes suggested-such as shock waves, solar flares or nebula lightning-operate on different length scales that have been hard to relate directly to chondrule properties. Chondrules are depleted in volatile elements, but surprisingly they show little evidence for the associated loss of lighter isotopes one would expect. Here we report a model in which molten chondrules come to equilibrium with the gas that was evaporated from other chondrules, and which explains the observations in a natural way. The regions within which the chondrules formed must have been larger than 150-6,000km in radius, and must have had a precursor number density of at least 10m-3. These constraints probably exclude nebula lightning, and also make formation far from the nebula midplane problematic. The wide range of chondrule compositions may be the result of different combinations of the local concentrations of precursors and the local abundance of water ice or vapour.

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