Chondrulelike objects in short-period comet 81P/Wild 2

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作者
Nakamura, Tomoki [1 ]
Noguchi, Takaaki [2 ]
Tsuchiyama, Akira [3 ]
Ushikubo, Takayuki [4 ]
Kita, Noriko T. [4 ]
Valley, John W. [4 ]
Zolensky, Michael E. [5 ]
Kakazu, Yuki [1 ]
Sakamoto, Kanako [1 ]
Mashio, Etsuko [3 ]
Uesugi, Kentaro [6 ]
Nakano, Tsukasa [7 ]
机构
[1] Kyushu Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, Fukuoka 8128581, Japan
[2] Ibaraki Univ, Coll Sci, Bunkyo Ku, Mito, Ibaraki 3108512, Japan
[3] Osaka Univ, Dept Earth & Space Sci, Grad Sch Sci, Toyonaka, Osaka 5600043, Japan
[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Geol & Geophys, Madison, WI 53706 USA
[5] NASA, Lyndon B Johnson Space Ctr, Astromat Res & Explorat Sci, Houston, TX 77058 USA
[6] Japan Synchrotron Radiat Res Inst, SPring 8, Sayo, Hyogo 6795198, Japan
[7] Natl Inst Adv Ind Sci & Technol, Geol Survey Japan, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058567, Japan
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日本学术振兴会;
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10.1126/science.1160995
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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];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The Stardust spacecraft returned cometary samples that contain crystalline material, but the origin of the material is not yet well understood. We found four crystalline particles from comet 81P/ Wild 2 that were apparently formed by flash- melting at a high temperature and are texturally, mineralogically, and compositionally similar to chondrules. Chondrules are submillimeter particles that dominate chondrites and are believed to have formed in the inner solar nebula. The comet particles show oxygen isotope compositions similar to chondrules in carbonaceous chondrites that compose the middle- to- outer asteroid belt. The presence of the chondrulelike objects in the comet suggests that chondrules have been transported out to the cold outer solar nebula and spread widely over the early solar system.
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