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NATURE ASTRONOMY
Volume 3, Issue 7, Pages 659-666Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0737-8
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- Spanish grants [AYA 2011-26522, AYA 2015-67175-P]
- NASA [NNX10AI63G, NNH16AC42I]
- DOE Office of Science User Facility [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Meteorites originating from primitive C-type asteroids are composed of materials from the Sun's protoplanetary disk, including up to a few per cent organic carbon. In contrast, some interplanetary dust particles and micrometeorites have much higher carbon contents, up to >90%, and are thought to originate from icy outer Solar System bodies and comets. Here we report an approximately 100-mu m-diameter very carbon-rich clast, with highly primitive characteristics, in the matrix of a CR2 chondrite, LaPaz Icefield 02342. The clast may represent a cometary building block, largely unsampled in meteorite collections, that was captured by a C-type asteroid during the early stages of planet formation. The existence of this cometary microxenolith supports the idea of a radially inward transport of materials from the outer protoplanetary disk into the CR chondrite reservoir during the formation of planetesimals. Moreover, the H-isotopic composition of the clast is suggestive of a temporal evolution of organic isotopic compositions in the comet-forming region of the disk.
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