Discovery of Solar Wind Neon in the Allende Meteorite

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-30-1986

Abstract

Inert gases have been measured in seven sieve fractions of a disaggregated sample of the Allende meteorite. The disaggregation was done by ultrasonic treatment in water and by freeze-thawing. This sample constitutes the first gas-rich portion know to occur in the Allende meteorite. The composition of the trapped neon is solar, i.e., Neon-B, and the gas-rich samples contain more trapped 20Ne than 36Ar. The set of sieve fractions show an anticorrelation of 20Ne content and grain size. Gas-richness seems to be quite common among the CV3 meteorites with Allende added to the earlier known cases of Mokoia, Vigarano, and Efremovka.

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Publication Title

Journal of Geophysical Research

DOI

10.1029/JB091iB04p0D460

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