Ancient asteroids enriched in refractory inclusions

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5875, 2008, Pages 514-517

  Sunshine, J M ^a   Connolly Jr , H C ^b,c,d   McCoy, T J ^e   Bus, S J ^f   La Croix, L M ^e,g  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; IRON OXIDE; MINERAL;

ABSORPTION; ACCRETION; ALUMINUM; ASTEROID; CALCIUM; CHONDRITE; INCLUSION; IRON OXIDE; REFRACTION; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPINEL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GEOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRUM;

EID: 42549083833     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154340     Document Type: Article

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46. This research was funded in part by NASA grants NNX06AH69G (J.M.S.), NNG05GF39G (H.C.C.), and NNG06GF56G (T.J.M. and L.M.L.) and NSF grant AST-0307688 (S.J.B.). We thank T. Hiroi for carefully collecting our spectra of CAIs and Allende samples at RELAB, K. Domanik for assistance with the electron microprobe at Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and R. Binzel and two anonymous reviewers for suggestions that improved this report. 518-520