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Re-evaporation of condensed matter during the formation of the solar systemFrom the properties of matter the conclusion is derived that the mineral assemblage characteristic of most chondritic meteorites is not at all what is expected to form directly from solar matter. Rather, the major minerals of the ordinary chondrites have chemical compositions indicative of formation from a medium greatly depleted in hydrogen and somewhat deficient in oxygen relative to solar elemental abundance ratios. The re-evaporation of condensed material, after separation from a large fraction of the gaseous components of solar matter, will lead to a medium of the appropriate composition. Such re-evaporation must have occurred at a time prior to the formation of many primitive meteorites.
Document ID
19790040520
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Herndon, J. M.
(California, University La Jolla, Calif., United States)
Date Acquired
August 9, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1978
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
79A24533
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGL-05-009-005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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