The Grand Tack, Vesta, and the Missing Olivine Problem
Abstract
The anisotropic expansion of coarse peridotites means that differentiated protoplanets may disrupt into large cohesive basaltic fragments but mm-sized olivine crystals susceptible to fractionation, possibly contributing to chondritic matrix material.
- Publication:
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79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
- Pub Date:
- August 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016LPICo1921.6066C