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In situ analysis of orthopyroxene in diogenites using laser ablation icp-ms
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Quinn, J. E. Mittlefehldt, D. W. Elk Sr., Mattias |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | Howardites, eucrites and diogenites (HED) form a suit of igneous achondrite meteorites that are thought to have formed on a single asteroidal body. While there have been many different models proposed for the formation of the HED parent asteroid they can be generalized into two end member models. One is the magma ocean model (e.g. [1]) in which the entire HED parent body was continuously fractionated from a planet wide magma ocean with diogenites representing the lower crust and eucrites being upper crustal rocks. The second model hypothesizes that diogenites and eucrites were formed as a series of intrusions and/or extrusions of partial melts of a primitive proto-Vesta [2]. We use in situ trace element analysis together with major and minor element analysis to try and distinguish between these different hypotheses for the evolution of the HED parent body. |
| File Size | 313599 |
| Page Count | 2 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20120001963 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t2f81br0h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Intrusion Ocean Models Pyroxenes Hypotheses Vesta Asteroid Meteorites Asteroids Meteoritic Composition Trace Elements Laser Ablation Achondrites Magma Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Presentation |
