Origin of Chondrules and Chondritic Meteorites

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Apr 1960

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Nature, Volume 186, Issue 4720, pp. 230-231 (1960).

Physics

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MORE than 90 per cent of all stony meteorites are classified as chondrites, because of the presence of chondrules-spheroidal aggregates of one or more silicates, commonly olivine and orthopyroxene. In form, texture and structure chondrules are not like any spheroidal bodies observed in terrestrial rocks, and their origin has been argued by investigators of meteorites for more than a century, without a generally accepted solution being reached. Roy1 has recently provided an admirable summary of the hypotheses of origin. Most of these hypotheses imply that chondrules were derived originally from the crystallization of a silicate melt. These hypotheses are often linked with the generally accepted belief that these meteorites are fragments of a disrupted body of asteroidal or planetary dimensions.

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