The Provenances of Asteroids, and Their Contributions to the Volatile Inventories of the Terrestrial Planets
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- 10 August 2012
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 337 (6095), 721-723
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1223474
Abstract
Constraining the Birthplace of Asteroids: Many primitive meteorites originating from the asteroid belt once contained abundant water that is now stored as OH in hydrated minerals. Alexander et al. (p. 721 , published online 12 July) estimated the hydrogen isotopic compositions in 86 samples of primitive meteorites that fell in Antarctica and compared the results to those of comets and Saturn's moon, Enceladus. Water in primitive meteorites was less deuteriumrich than that in comets and Enceladus, implying that, in contradiction to recent models of the dynamical evolution of the solar system, the parent bodies of primitive meteorites cannot have formed in the same region as comets. The results also suggest that comets were not the principal source of Earth's water.Keywords
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