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T1 - Large-scale thermal events in the solar nebula : evidence from Fe,Ni metal grains in primitive meteorites.
AU - Meibom, Anders
AU - Desch, Steven J.
AU - Kort, Alexander N.
AU - Cuzzi, Jeffrey N.
AU - Petaev, Michael I.
AU - Wilson, Lionel
AU - Keil, Klaus
PY - 2000/5
Y1 - 2000/5
N2 - Chemical zoning patterns in some iron, nickel metal grains from CH carbonaceous chondrites imply formation at temperatures from 1370 to 1270 kelvin by condensation from a solar nebular gas cooling at a rate of ~0.2 kelvin per hour. This cooling rate requires a large-scale thermal event in the nebula, in contrast to the localized, transient heating events inferred for chondrule formation. In our model, mass accretion through the protoplanetary disk caused large-scale evaporation of precursor dust near its midplane inside of a few astronomical units. Gas convectively moved from the midplane to cooler regions above it, and the metal grains condensed in these parcels of rising gas.
AB - Chemical zoning patterns in some iron, nickel metal grains from CH carbonaceous chondrites imply formation at temperatures from 1370 to 1270 kelvin by condensation from a solar nebular gas cooling at a rate of ~0.2 kelvin per hour. This cooling rate requires a large-scale thermal event in the nebula, in contrast to the localized, transient heating events inferred for chondrule formation. In our model, mass accretion through the protoplanetary disk caused large-scale evaporation of precursor dust near its midplane inside of a few astronomical units. Gas convectively moved from the midplane to cooler regions above it, and the metal grains condensed in these parcels of rising gas.
U2 - 10.1126/science.288.5467.839
DO - 10.1126/science.288.5467.839
M3 - Journal article
VL - 288
SP - 839
EP - 841
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
ER -