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. 2022 Dec 16;8(50):eade2067.
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade2067. Epub 2022 Dec 16.

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

Noriyuki Kawasaki  1 Kazuhide Nagashima  2 Naoya Sakamoto  3 Toru Matsumoto  4   5 Ken-Ichi Bajo  1 Sohei Wada  1 Yohei Igami  5 Akira Miyake  5 Takaaki Noguchi  5 Daiki Yamamoto  6 Sara S Russell  7 Yoshinari Abe  8 Jérôme Aléon  9 Conel M O'D Alexander  10 Sachiko Amari  11   12 Yuri Amelin  13 Martin Bizzarro  14 Audrey Bouvier  15 Richard W Carlson  10 Marc Chaussidon  16 Byeon-Gak Choi  17 Nicolas Dauphas  18 Andrew M Davis  18 Tommaso Di Rocco  19 Wataru Fujiya  20 Ryota Fukai  21 Ikshu Gautam  6 Makiko K Haba  6 Yuki Hibiya  22 Hiroshi Hidaka  23 Hisashi Homma  24 Peter Hoppe  25 Gary R Huss  2 Kiyohiro Ichida  26 Tsuyoshi Iizuka  27 Trevor R Ireland  28 Akira Ishikawa  6 Motoo Ito  29 Shoichi Itoh  5 Noriko T Kita  30 Kouki Kitajima  30 Thorsten Kleine  31 Shintaro Komatani  26 Alexander N Krot  2 Ming-Chang Liu  32   33 Yuki Masuda  6 Kevin D McKeegan  32 Mayu Morita  26 Kazuko Motomura  34 Frédéric Moynier  16 Izumi Nakai  35 Ann Nguyen  36 Larry Nittler  10 Morihiko Onose  26 Andreas Pack  19 Changkun Park  37 Laurette Piani  38 Liping Qin  39 Maria Schönbächler  40 Lauren Tafla  32 Haolan Tang  32 Kentaro Terada  41 Yasuko Terada  42 Tomohiro Usui  20 Meenakshi Wadhwa  43 Richard J Walker  44 Katsuyuki Yamashita  45 Qing-Zhu Yin  46 Tetsuya Yokoyama  6 Shigekazu Yoneda  47 Edward D Young  32 Hiroharu Yui  48 Ai-Cheng Zhang  49 Tomoki Nakamura  50 Hiroshi Naraoka  51 Ryuji Okazaki  51 Kanako Sakamoto  21 Hikaru Yabuta  52 Masanao Abe  21 Akiko Miyazaki  21 Aiko Nakato  21 Masahiro Nishimura  21 Tatsuaki Okada  21 Toru Yada  21 Kasumi Yogata  21 Satoru Nakazawa  21 Takanao Saiki  21 Satoshi Tanaka  21 Fuyuto Terui  53 Yuichi Tsuda  21 Sei-Ichiro Watanabe  23 Makoto Yoshikawa  21 Shogo Tachibana  54 Hisayoshi Yurimoto  1   3
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Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2

Noriyuki Kawasaki et al. Sci Adv. .

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: 16O-rich (associated with refractory inclusions) and 16O-poor (associated with chondrules). Both the 16O-rich and 16O-poor minerals probably formed in the inner solar protoplanetary disk and were subsequently transported outward. The abundance ratios of the 16O-rich to 16O-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.

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Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.. Histograms of Δ17O for olivine grains.
Chondrule olivine in (A) CV chondrite Kaba [data from (16)], (B) CM chondrite Murchison [data from (15)], (C) CO chondrite Yamato 81020 [data from (14)], and (D) ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite Acfer 094 [data from (13)]. Isolated olivine grains in (E) CI chondrites Ivuna and Orgueil [previous studies: data from (4, 6)], (F) CI chondrites Ivuna and Alais [previous study: data from (7)], (G) Ryugu [previous study: data from (8)], (H) Ryugu (this study), (I) Ivuna (this study), (J) comet 81P/Wild2 [data from (, –60)], and (K) ungrouped carbonaceous chondrite Tagish Lake [data from (49)]. Magnesium-rich olivine (Mg# > 97) is shown as orange and Mg-poor olivine (Mg# < 97) in blue, except for (F) and (G) because their chemical compositions are not fully available. Bin sizes of (E) and (J) correspond to their analytical uncertainties. Note that Mg-poor olivine peaks in Yamato 81020 (C) and Acfer 094 (D) may be enhanced because these studies selectively measured Fe-rich ones from the polished sections. The olivine grains with low Δ17O are most likely related to refractory inclusions (CAIs and AOAs), while those with high Δ17O are related to chondrules. L1997, Leshin et al. (4); P2020, Piralla et al. (6); M2022, Morin et al. (7); N2022, Nakamura et al. (8).
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.. Occurrences of anhydrous primary minerals in Ryugu sample.
(A) BSE image of primary mineral-rich clast. (B) Combined x-ray elemental map of (A) using Mg Kα, Ca Kα, and Al Kα lines assigned for RGB color channels. (C) Combined x-ray elemental map of (A) using Fe Kα, S Kα, and O Kα lines assigned for RGB color channels. BSE images of (D) and (E) olivine and (F) Mg-Al spinel. The olivine grains (D and E) are located in the clast shown in (A) to (C). Their O isotopic compositions (Δ17O) are (D) −24‰, (E) −4‰, and (F) −23‰, respectively. Al-Sp, Mg-Al spinel; Bru, breunnerite; Cal, calcite; Dol, dolomite; FeS, Fe-sulfide; Mag, magnetite; Ol, olivine; Po, pyrrhotite; Px, low-Ca pyroxene.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 3.. Oxygen isotopic compositions of anhydrous primary minerals.
(A and B) Ryugu. (C and D) Ivuna. Data are listed in tables S2 and S3 and data S1. Duplicate analyses for each grain showed identical value (within uncertainty of our measurements), suggesting homogeneous O isotopic compositions within grain. Therefore, each point corresponds to a single grain. Errors correspond to 2σ. TF, terrestrial fractionation line; CCAM, carbonaceous chondrite anhydrous mineral line; PCM, primitive chondrule mineral line.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 4.. Refractory inclusions in Ivuna.
(A and B) BSE images and (C and D) combined x-ray elemental maps of using Mg Kα, Ca Kα, and Al Kα lines assigned for RGB color channels of (A and C) AOA and (B and D) spinel-olivine inclusion from Ivuna. Oxygen isotopic compositions of individual minerals in (E) the AOA and (F) the spinel-olivine inclusion. Errors correspond to 2σ. An, anorthite; Di, diopside; Dol, dolomite; Ol, olivine; G, gold coating residue.

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