A large planetary body inferred from diamond inclusions in a ureilite meteorite

被引：50

作者：

Nabiei, Farhang ^{[1
,2
]}

Badro, James ^{[1
,3
]}

Dennenwaldt, Teresa ^{[2
,4
]}

Oveisi, Emad ^{[2
]}

Cantoni, Marco ^{[2
]}

Hebert, Cecile ^{[2
,4
]}

El Goresy, Ahmed ^{[5
]}

Barrat, Jean-Alix ^{[6
]}

Gillet, Philippe ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Phys, Earth & Planetary Sci Lab, Lausanne, Switzerland

[2] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Interdisciplinary Ctr Elect Microscopy CIME, Lausanne, Switzerland

[3] Sorbonne Paris Cite, Inst Phys Globe Paris, Paris, France

[4] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Inst Phys, Electron Spectrometry & Microscopy Lab LSME, Lausanne, Switzerland

[5] Univ Bayreuth, Bayer Geoinst, Bayreuth, Germany

[6] Univ Bretagne Occidentale, Inst Univ Europeen Mer, Plouzane, France

来源：

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | 2018年 / 9卷

基金：

瑞士国家科学基金会;

关键词：

SOLAR-SYSTEM; HIGH-PRESSURE; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; MELTING RELATIONS; SULFUR-COMPOUND; IRON METEORITE; CORE FORMATION; GIANT IMPACT; BULK MODULUS; DEEP MANTLE;

D O I：

10.1038/s41467-018-03808-6

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Planetary formation models show that terrestrial planets are formed by the accretion of tens of Moon-to Mars-sized planetary embryos through energetic giant impacts. However, relics of these large proto-planets are yet to be found. Ureilites are one of the main families of achondritic meteorites and their parent body is believed to have been catastrophically disrupted by an impact during the first 10 million years of the solar system. Here we studied a section of the Almahata Sitta ureilite using transmission electron microscopy, where large diamonds were formed at high pressure inside the parent body. We discovered chromite, phosphate, and (Fe, Ni)-sulfide inclusions embedded in diamond. The composition and morphology of the inclusions can only be explained if the formation pressure was higher than 20 GPa. Such pressures suggest that the ureilite parent body was a Mercury-to Mars-sized planetary embryo.

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