Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
The association between agglutinates and chondrule-like spherules, which characterizes the assemblage of impact-derived melt products in lunar regolith samples and some gas-rich achondrites, is not found in primitive chondrites. This observation suggests that impacts into a parent-body regolith are unlikely to have produced the chondrules. We believe that if chondrules were formed from impact melt, it was probably generated by jetting during particle-to-particle collisions, presumably in the nebula.
Keywords:
LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION
Type:
Earth and Planetary Science Letters; 35; 1, Ma; May 1977
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