Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites

Kazuhide Nagashima (), Alexander N. Krot and Hisayoshi Yurimoto
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Kazuhide Nagashima: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Alexander N. Krot: Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hisayoshi Yurimoto: Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nature, 2004, vol. 428, issue 6986, 921-924

Abstract: Abstract Primitive chondritic meteorites contain material (presolar grains1), at the level of a few parts per million, that predates the formation of our Solar System. Astronomical observations2 and the chemical composition of the Sun3 both suggest that silicates must have been the dominant solids in the protoplanetary disk from which the planets of the Solar System formed, but no presolar silicates have been identified in chondrites4,5,6. Here we report the in situ discovery of presolar silicate grains 0.1–1 µm in size in the matrices of two primitive carbonaceous chondrites. These grains are highly enriched in 17O (δ17OSMOW > 100–400‰), but have solar silicon isotopic compositions within analytical uncertainties, suggesting an origin in an oxygen-rich red giant or an asymptotic giant branch star7,8. The estimated abundance of these presolar silicates (3–30 parts per million) is higher than reported for other types of presolar grains in meteorites1, consistent with their ubiquity in the early Solar System, but is about two orders of magnitude lower than their abundance in anhydrous interplanetary dust particles9. This result is best explained by the destruction of silicates during high-temperature processing in the solar nebula.

Date: 2004
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