The interstellar dust as a precursor of Ca,Al-rich inclusions in carbonaceous chondrites |
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| Authors: | John A Wood |
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| Institution: | Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | (1) The observed anomalies in meteoritic oxygen isotope compositions are not due to an incomplete mixing of several dust or gas-plus-dust components in the solar nebula. If they were, other elements would display similar anomalies. (The FUN inclusions in Allende appear to be exceptions to this premise.) (2) The anomalies must therefore stem from differing degrees of incomplete exchange of oxygen isotopes between the primordial gas and dust components of the nebula. The dust is more likely to have been the16O-enriched component. (3) Since the isotopic difference between dust and gas probably could not have been preserved if the dust was ever completely vaporized in the nebula, the Ca,Al-rich inclusions (CAI's) in carbonaceous chondrites are unlikely to be condensates, but instead are distillation residues. (4) If so, the observed depletion of super-refractory elements in the Group II CAI's cannot have been accomplished by fractional condensation in the solar nebula. (5) Then this depletion, and a number of other properties of the components of primitive meteoritic material, must be relics of pre-solar system fractionations among different populations of interstellar dust grains. |
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