[meteorite-list] Making Sense of Droplets Inside Droplets(Chondrules & CAIs)

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Thu Jun 2 02:08:08 EDT 2005


On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:40:28 -0700, "Rob Wesel" <nakhladog at comcast.net> wrote:

>Someone on the list had also mentioned the possibility that a CAI could be 
>conical allowing chondritic material to fill the cone. The cone, when sliced 
>would look like chondritic material completely encapsulated within a CAI. 
>Context is everything.
>

Yes, that conversation came up late last year/early this year over a meteorite of the Hupe's.  But
this article is, IIRC, a different issue-- it isn't about a pocket of chondritic material surrounded
by a CAI-- it is about condrules dispersed throughout the CAI itself.



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