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Forming Chondrites in a Solar Nebula with Magnetically Induced Turbulence

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2016-03-23 v2

Abstract

Chondritic meteorites provide valuable opportunities to investigate the origins of the solar system. We explore impact jetting as a mechanism of chondrule formation and subsequent pebble accretion as a mechanism of accreting chondrules onto parent bodies of chondrites, and investigate how these two processes can account for the currently available meteoritic data. We find that when the solar nebula is 5\le 5 times more massive than the minimum-mass solar nebula at a23a \simeq 2-3 AU and parent bodies of chondrites are 1024\le 10^{24} g (\le 500 km in radius) in the solar nebula, impact jetting and subsequent pebble accretion can reproduce a number of properties of the meteoritic data. The properties include the present asteroid belt mass, the formation timescale of chondrules, and the magnetic field strength of the nebula derived from chondrules in Semarkona. Since this scenario requires a first generation of planetesimals that trigger impact jetting and serve as parent bodies to accrete chondrules, the upper limit of parent bodies' masses leads to the following implications: primordial asteroids that were originally 1024\ge 10^{24} g in mass were unlikely to contain chondrules, while less massive primordial asteroids likely had a chondrule-rich surface layer. The scenario developed from impact jetting and pebble accretion can therefore provide new insights into the origins of the solar system.

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@article{arxiv.1603.00086,
  title  = {Forming Chondrites in a Solar Nebula with Magnetically Induced Turbulence},
  author = {Yasuhiro Hasegawa and Neal J. Turner and Joseph Masiero and Shigeru Wakita and Yuji Matsumoto and Shoichi Oshino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.00086},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Title are modified and typographical errors are corrected, following the published version; 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters