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Contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions in the early Solar System

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  • Shoichi Itoh

    (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

  • Hisayoshi Yurimoto

    (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

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Chondrules and calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions (CAIs) are preserved materials from the early history of the Solar System, where they resulted from thermal processing of pre-existing solids during various flash heating episodes which lasted for several million years1. CAIs are believed to have formed about two million years before the chondrules2,3,4,5. Here we report the discovery of a chondrule fragment embedded in a CAI. The chondrule's composition is poor in 16O, while the CAI has a 16O-poor melilite (Ca, Mg, Al-Silicate) core surrounded by a 16O-rich igneous mantle. These observations, when combined with the previously reported CAI-bearing chondrules6,7,8,9, strongly suggest that the formation of chondrules and CAIs overlapped in time and space, and that there were large fluctuations in the oxygen isotopic compositions in the solar nebula probably synchronizing astrophysical pulses.

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  • Shoichi Itoh & Hisayoshi Yurimoto, 2003. "Contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions in the early Solar System," Nature, Nature, vol. 423(6941), pages 728-731, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:423:y:2003:i:6941:d:10.1038_nature01699
    DOI: 10.1038/nature01699
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