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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Advances, 50(8), 2022

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade2067

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Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2

Journal article published in 2022 by Noriyuki Kawasaki ORCID, Kazuhide Nagashima ORCID, Naoya Sakamoto ORCID, Toru Matsumoto ORCID, Ken-Ichi Bajo ORCID, Sohei Wada ORCID, Yohei Igami ORCID, Akira Miyake ORCID, Takaaki Noguchi ORCID, Daiki Yamamoto, Sara S. Russell ORCID, Yoshinari Abe ORCID, Jérôme Aléon ORCID, Conel M. O’D Alexander ORCID, Sachiko Amari ORCID and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The extraterrestrial materials returned from asteroid (162173) Ryugu consist predominantly of low-temperature aqueously formed secondary minerals and are chemically and mineralogically similar to CI (Ivuna-type) carbonaceous chondrites. Here, we show that high-temperature anhydrous primary minerals in Ryugu and CI chondrites exhibit a bimodal distribution of oxygen isotopic compositions: 16 O-rich (associated with refractory inclusions) and 16 O-poor (associated with chondrules). Both the 16 O-rich and 16 O-poor minerals probably formed in the inner solar protoplanetary disk and were subsequently transported outward. The abundance ratios of the 16 O-rich to 16 O-poor minerals in Ryugu and CI chondrites are higher than in other carbonaceous chondrite groups but are similar to that of comet 81P/Wild2, suggesting that Ryugu and CI chondrites accreted in the outer Solar System closer to the accretion region of comets.