Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Olivine-rich achondrites from Vesta and the missing mantle problem

  • Zoltan Vaci,
  • James M. D. Day,
  • Marine Paquet,
  • Karen Ziegler,
  • Qing-Zhu Yin,
  • Supratim Dey,
  • Audrey Miller,
  • Carl Agee,
  • Rainer Bartoschewitz,
  • Andreas Pack

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25808-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Ultramafic olivine-rich achondrites provide insight into the missing mantle problem in the asteroid belt. The petrology and geochemistry of these samples suggests they are related to Vesta or the Vestoids.