Asteroidal water within fluid inclusion-bearing halite in an H5 chondrite, Monahans (1998)

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5432, 1999, Pages 1377-1379

  Zolensky, Michael E ^a   Bodnar, Robert J ^b   Gibson Jr , Everett K ^a   Nyquist, Laurence E ^a   Reese, Young ^c   Shih, Chi Yu ^c   Wiesmann, Henry ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IRON; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

CHONDRITE; HALITE; INCLUSION; METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; IMAGING; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

CRYSTALLIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE; TEXAS; WATER;

ASTEROIDEA;

EID: 0033609992     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5432.1377     Document Type: Article

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32. We thank the citizens of Monahans for providing us with the meteorite for study. E. Roedder, H. McSween, and one anonymous person provided cogent reviews. Support was provided to M.E.Z., R.J.B., and L.E.N. by NASA's Cosmochemistry Program.