Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Young asteroidal fluid activity revealed by absolute age from apatite in carbonaceous chondrite

  • Ai-Cheng Zhang,
  • Qiu-Li Li,
  • Hisayoshi Yurimoto,
  • Naoya Sakamoto,
  • Xian-Hua Li,
  • Sen Hu,
  • Yang-Ting Lin,
  • Ru-Cheng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12844
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Chondritic meteorites formed in the early solar system and may tell us about primary processes at that time. Here, Zhang et al. report an absolute 207Pb/206Pb isochron age (4,450±50 Ma) of apatite from a carbonaceous chondrite constraining timing of fluid activity in meteorites.