Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Reduced and unstratified crust in CV chondrite parent body

  • Clément Ganino,
  • Guy Libourel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00293-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Meteorites may unlock the history of the early solar system. Here, the authors find, through Ca-Fe-rich secondary phases, that the distinction between reduced and oxidized CV chondrites is invalid; therefore, CV3 chondrites are asteroid fragments that percolated heterogeneously via porous flow of hydrothermal fluid.