Meteorite evidence for partial differentiation and protracted accretion of planetesimals

Modern meteorite classification schemes assume that no single planetary body could be source of both unmelted (chondritic) and melted (achondritic) meteorites. This dichotomy is a natural outcome of formation models assuming that planetesimal accretion occurred nearly instantaneously. However, it ha...

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Main Authors: Bryson, J, Maurel, C, Lyons, R, Ball, M, Chopdekar, R, Scholl, A, Ciesla, F, Bottke, W, Weiss, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020