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Water/rock interactions in experimentally simulated dirty snowball and dirty iceball cometary nuclei
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Allton, Judith H. Gooding, James L. |
| Copyright Year | 1991 |
| Description | In the dirty snowball model for cometary nuclei, comet-nucleus materials are regarded as mixtures of volatile ices and relatively non-volatile minerals or chemical compounds. Carbonaceous chondrite meteorites are regarded as useful analogs for the rocky component. To help elucidate the possible physical geochemistry of cometary nuclei, preliminary results are reported of calorimetric experiments with two-component systems involving carbonaceous chondrites and water ice. Based on collective knowledge of the physics of water ice, three general types of interactions can be expected between water and minerals at sub-freezing temperatures: (1) heterogeneous nucleation of ice by insoluble minerals; (2) adsorption of water vapor by hygroscopic phases; and (3) freezing- and melting-point depression of liquid water sustained by soluble minerals. The relative and absolute magnitude of all three effects are expected to vary with mineral composition. |
| File Size | 241035 |
| Page Count | 3 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19920001670 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9f52kc93 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1991-06-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Astrophysics Comets Water Nucleation Calorimeters Vapor Phases Solubility Meteoritic Composition Geochemistry Ice Minerals Water Vapor Melting Points Freezing Fluid-solid Interactions Interstellar Chemistry Comet Nuclei Astronomical Models Chemical Composition Carbonaceous Chondrites Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |