Paleomagnetic evidence for a partially differentiated ordinary chondrite parent asteroid

The textures and accretion ages of chondrites have been used to argue that their parent asteroids never differentiated. Without a core, undifferentiated planetesimals could not have generated magnetic fields through dynamo activity, so chondrites are not expected to have experienced such fields. How...

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Main Authors: Bryson, James F J (Author), Weiss, B. P. (Author), Getzin, B. (Author), Abrahams, Jacob N. H. (Author), Nimmo, Francis (Author), Scholl, A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2020-05-20T14:09:17Z.
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