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Do SiC grains in Orgueil differ from those in Murchison?Studies of individual presolar SiC grains have shown that most are enriched in Si-29, Si-30, and C-13, and depleted in N-15, compared to solar-system abundances and that many have large excesses of Mg-26, most plausibly from in situ decay of Al-26. Stone et al., observed that Si from a family of platy SiC grains define a linear array on a 3-isotope plot that does not pass through normal solar-system Si. In contrast, Si-isotope data from over 100 3-4 micron SiC grains from Murchison from an elongate ellipse enclosing the Stone et al. linear array but also including 'normal' solar-system Si. To investigate whether this difference in Si isotopes indicates different populations of SiC in the two meteorites and to improve the characterization of Orgueil SiC, we used the PANURGE ion microprobe to measure Si, C, N, and Mg isotopes and Al and Na concentrations in a suite of 2-5 micron SiC grains from a new sample of Orgueil.
Document ID
19940011787
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Huss, Gary R.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hutcheon, Ian D.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wasserburg, G. J.
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
94N16260
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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