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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Advances, 46(8), 2022

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add8141

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Ryugu’s nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System

Journal article published in 2022 by Timo Hopp ORCID, Nicolas Dauphas ORCID, Yoshinari Abe ORCID, Jérôme Aléon ORCID, Conel M. O.-’.-D. Alexander ORCID, Sachiko Amari ORCID, Yuri Amelin ORCID, Ken-Ichi Bajo ORCID, Martin Bizzarro ORCID, Audrey Bouvier ORCID, Richard W. Carlson ORCID, Marc Chaussidon ORCID, Byeon-Gak Choi ORCID, Andrew M. Davis ORCID, Tommaso Di Rocco 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

Little is known about the origin of the spectral diversity of asteroids and what it says about conditions in the protoplanetary disk. Here, we show that samples returned from Cb-type asteroid Ryugu have Fe isotopic anomalies indistinguishable from Ivuna-type (CI) chondrites, which are distinct from all other carbonaceous chondrites. Iron isotopes, therefore, demonstrate that Ryugu and CI chondrites formed in a reservoir that was different from the source regions of other carbonaceous asteroids. Growth and migration of the giant planets destabilized nearby planetesimals and ejected some inward to be implanted into the Main Belt. In this framework, most carbonaceous chondrites may have originated from regions around the birthplaces of Jupiter and Saturn, while the distinct isotopic composition of CI chondrites and Ryugu may reflect their formation further away in the disk, owing their presence in the inner Solar System to excitation by Uranus and Neptune.