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4. Parent Bodies of Iron Meteorites
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
On the basis of their chemical and mineralogical composition, 420 iron meteorites have been classified into 12 different groups. Each group seems to have come from a separate parent body. The largest group, IIIAB, probably formed an asteroidal core in a body approximately 100 km in radius, which was largely destroyed by collision 630 My ago. Another 67 analyzed irons do not belong to these groups, and may represent samples from another 20 or more bodies.
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- Part VII. Differentiated Meteorites
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 39: Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites: Interrelations, Evolution and Origins , December 1977 , pp. 439 - 444
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- Copyright © A.H. Delsemme 1977
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