Magnus Endress et al., «Early Aqueous Activity on Primitive
Meteorite Parent Bodies,» Nature, Vol.
Not exact matches
The amount of nickel - 60 found in
meteorite samples — particularly in comparison to the amount of stable, «ordinary» iron - 56 — can indicate how much iron - 60 was present when the larger
parent body from which the
meteorite broke off was formed.
These crashes were big and energetic and, in the case of the diamond - laden
meteorite's
parent body, caused catastrophic disruptions that the crystals captured.
Current thinking is that these tiny diamonds can form in three ways: enormous pressure shockwaves from high - energy collisions between the
meteorite «
parent body» and other space objects; deposition by chemical vapor; or, finally, the «normal» static pressure inside the
parent body, like most diamonds on Earth.
The study shows that the
parent body from which the
meteorite came was a planetary embryo of a size between Mercury and Mars.
The oxygen isotopes of a
meteorite can act as a fingerprint to identify the
parent body it originated from.
«The complex suite of organic materials in carbonaceous chondrite
meteorites probably originally formed in the interstellar medium and / or the solar protoplanetary disk, but were subsequently modified in the
meteorites» asteroidal
parent bodies.
This module includes the following: * A check list for students,
parents and teachers to ensure that students understand all the content by the time they reach the end of the module; * A list of important terms used in this section * Descriptions of different celestial
bodies (planets, stars, moons, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, meteors,
meteorites) * Opportunities for student engagement - place for students to write their thoughts / answers in spaces provided (individual as well as group work) * Simple explanations on the Earth's rotation, day and night, years and seasons, equinoxes and solstices.
This particular one is part of the Sikhote Alin
meteorite that fell over Siberia in the middle of the 20th century, it broke off its
parent body about 300 Million years ago.
Hence, most specialists on
meteorite CRE ages interpret the clusters as the result of collision processes of
parent bodies, as they do for stony
meteorites (ages < 130 m.y.) to which more than one dating method can be applied.