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Molecular Cloud Origin for the Oxygen Isotope Heterogeneity in the Solar System
- Source :
- Science. 305:1763-1766
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2004.
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Abstract
- Meteorites and their components have anomalous oxygen isotopic compositions characterized by large variations in 18 O/ 16 O and 17 O/ 16 O ratios. On the basis of recent observations of star-forming regions and models of accreting protoplanetary disks, we suggest that these variations may originate in a parent molecular cloud by ultraviolet photodissociation processes. Materials with anomalous isotopic compositions were then transported into the solar nebula by icy dust grains during the collapse of the cloud. The icy dust grains drifted toward the Sun in the disk, and their subsequent evaporation resulted in the 17 O- and 18 O-enrichment of the inner disk gas.
- Subjects :
- Carbon Isotopes
Carbon Monoxide
Cosmic Dust
Photons
Solar System
Multidisciplinary
Photochemistry
Ultraviolet Rays
Chemistry
Molecular cloud
Ice
Temperature
Oxygen Isotopes
Accretion (astrophysics)
Isotopes of oxygen
Astrobiology
Isotope fractionation
Meteorite
Formation and evolution of the Solar System
Cosmic dust
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959203 and 00368075
- Volume :
- 305
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f14c69d0024d1c5ce409189a64ace96