The fall, recovery, orbit, and composition of the Tagish Lake meteorite: a new type of carbonaceous chondrite.
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The preatmospheric mass of the Tagish Lake meteoroid was about 200,000 kilograms. Its calculated orbit indicates affinity to the Apollo asteroids with a semimajor axis in the middle of the asteroid belt, consistent with a linkage to low-albedo C, D, and P type asteroids. The mineralogy, oxygen isotope, and bulk chemical composition of recovered samples of the Tagish Lake meteorite are intermediate between CM and CI meteorites. These data suggest that the Tagish Lake meteorite may be one of the most primitive solar system materials yet studied.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 290 5490 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000