The Life and Death of Iron-60

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Trappitsch R. * Boehnke P. Stephan T. Telus M. Savina M. R. Pardo O. Davis A. M. Dauphas N. Huss G. R.

80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society 2017 [#6299]

abstract (PDF)

“We measured the nickel isotopic composition in the Semarkona DAP1 chondrule by resonance ionization mass spectrometry. Correcting for mass dependent fractionation, we find an initial 60Fe/58Fe value of (4.2 ± 7.6) × 10–8 (2 σ, MSWD = 1.15)”

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