Archive for September 16th, 2014

New estimates of the production of volatile gases from ablating carbonaceous micrometeoroids at Earth and Mars during an E-belt-type Late Heavy Bombardment

16/09/2014 16:08 · by karmaka · in carbonaceous chondrite, CM, Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB)

New estimates of the production of volatile gases from ablating carbonaceous micrometeoroids at Earth and Mars during an E-belt-type Late Heavy Bombardment Richard W. Court, Mark A. Sephton Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.010 available…

The elemental composition of the Sun I. The intermediate mass elements Na to Ca

16/09/2014 15:56 · by karmaka · in elemental abundance, solar system, sun

Pat Scott, Nicolas Grevesse, Martin Asplund, A. Jacques Sauval, Karin Lind, Yoichi Takeda, Remo Collet, Regner Trampedach, Wolfgang Hayek PDF LINK LINK The elemental composition of the Sun II. The iron group elements Sc to…

Semarkona: Lessons for chondrule and chondrite formation

16/09/2014 15:40 · by karmaka · in chondrule

Alexander Hubbard, Denton S. Ebel PDF LINK LINK update (22 September): LINK We consider the evidence presented by the LL3.0 chondrite Semarkona, including its chondrule fraction, chondrule size distribution and matrix thermal history. We show…