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隕石のHf-Wクロノメトリーから,地上の惑星の形成のための短い時間スケール
Qingzhu Yin1, S B Jacobsen, K Yamashita
1Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. yin@fas.harvard.edu
Nature
|August 29, 2002
まとめ
私たちの太陽系の惑星の形成は急速であり,ほとんどの金属シリケート分離は3,000万年以内に発生しました. この発見は,恒星形成の直後に惑星が急速に組み合わさったというモデルを裏付けている.
科学分野:
- 宇宙進化の宇宙進化について
- 惑星科学は惑星科学である.
- 地質化学 地質化学
背景:
- 初期の太陽系天体の組み立てのタイムラインを決定することは,星と惑星の形成を理解するために重要です.
- 放射性核酸クロノメーターを用いた以前の研究では,300万年以内にヴェスタのような天体の急速な形成が示唆されていた.
- 矛盾するハフニウム・タングステンの同位体データは,後の形成 (約. 16 Myr) と,より長い地上の惑星の増殖 (62 Myr).
研究 の 目的:
- 初期の太陽系天体形成のタイミングの不一致を解決するために.
- 隕石の組成に関する新しい同位体データを提供するために.
- 惑星の蓄積時間スケールのモデルを精査する.
主な方法:
- 隕石におけるボルンガムの同位体組成の分析.
- 隕石におけるハフニウム・トングステンの比率の測定.
- 新しい同位体データと既存のクロノメトリックデータの比較.
主要な成果:
- いくつかの隕石について,新しいボルンガムの同位体とハフニウム-ボルンガムの比率の測定が得られました.
- 以前のいくつかの発見とは対照的に,金属シリケート分離の大部分は3,000万年以内に発生しました.
- この結果は,急速な惑星形成のシナリオと一致しています.
結論:
- 初期の太陽系における金属・シリケート分離を含む天体の形成は,急速なプロセスであった.
- この発見は,若い恒星物体の天文観測とダイナミック・アクレション・モデルの観測を裏付けている.
- 短い時間スケール (約. 10 Myr) は,地上の惑星形成の主要な成長段階に示されています.
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