Remnants of the early solar system water enriched in heavy oxygen isotopes |
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Authors: | Sakamoto Naoya Seto Yusuke Itoh Shoichi Kuramoto Kiyoshi Fujino Kiyoshi Nagashima Kazuhide Krot Alexander N Yurimoto Hisayoshi |
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Institution: | Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan. |
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Abstract: | Oxygen isotopic composition of our solar system is believed to have resulted from mixing of two isotopically distinct nebular reservoirs, 16O-rich and (17,18)O-rich relative to Earth. The nature and composition of the (17,18)O-rich reservoir are poorly constrained. We report an in situ discovery of a chemically and isotopically unique material distributed ubiquitously in fine-grained matrix of a primitive carbonaceous chondrite Acfer 094. This material formed by oxidation of Fe,Ni-metal and sulfides by water either in the solar nebula or on a planetesimal. Oxygen isotopic composition of this material indicates that the water was highly enriched in 17O and 18O (delta(17,18)O(SMOW) = +180 per thousand per mil), providing the first evidence for an extremely (17,18)O-rich reservoir in the early solar system. |
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