Cosmogenic Noble Gases in the Washington County Meteorite

Nature ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 183 (4662) ◽  
pp. 660-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLIVER A. SCHAEFFER ◽  
DAVID E. FISHER





2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfred Vogt ◽  
Mario Trieloff ◽  
Ulrich Ott ◽  
Jens Hopp ◽  
Winfried H. Schwarz

AbstractNoble gases are important tracers of planetary accretion and acquisition of volatiles to planetary atmospheres and interiors. Earth’s mantle hosts solar-type helium and neon for which 20Ne/22Ne ratios advocate either incorporation of solar wind irradiated solids or solar nebula gas dissolution into an early magma ocean. However, the exact source location of primordial signatures remains unclear. Here we use high-resolution stepwise heating gas extraction experiments to analyse interior samples of the iron meteorite Washington County and find that they contain striking excesses of solar helium and neon. We infer that the Washington County protolith was irradiated by solar wind and that implanted noble gases were partitioned into segregating metal melts. The corollary that solar signatures are able to enter the cores of differentiated planetesimals and protoplanets validates hypotheses that Earth’s core may have incorporated solar noble gases and may be contributing to the solar signatures observed in Earth’s mantle.



1979 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 533-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Grynberg ◽  
E. Giacobino ◽  
F. Biraben ◽  
K. Beroff
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1979 ◽  
Vol 40 (C7) ◽  
pp. C7-63-C7-64
Author(s):  
A. J. Davies ◽  
J. Dutton ◽  
C. J. Evans ◽  
A. Goodings ◽  
P.K. Stewart


1983 ◽  
Vol 44 (C7) ◽  
pp. C7-497-C7-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Nakajima ◽  
N. Uchitomi ◽  
Y. Adachi ◽  
S. Maeda ◽  
C. Hirose
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Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daxiang He ◽  
Jianfa Chen ◽  
Chen Zhang ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Jianxun Zhou
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Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Jankovec ◽  
Tomáš Vitvar ◽  
Martin Šanda ◽  
Takuya Matsumoto ◽  
Liang-Feng Han


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Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-325
Author(s):  
Keisuke Nagao ◽  
Makiko K. Haba ◽  
Jong Ik Lee ◽  
Taehoon Kim ◽  
Mi Jung Lee ◽  
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