[meteorite-list] Higher than expected levels of sodium ... suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed.

[Ted Bunch]

Sounds like a good opinion to me -

Ted Bunch


On 6/21/08 9:48 AM, "Steve Dunklee" <sdunklee72520 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ionized particles in the early formation of chondrules would hold a charge.
> This charge would hold sodium vapor rather than allowing it to be driven away,
> much the way a sodium vapor lamp works. In effect the charge in addition to
> the low gravity would would tend to concentrate the available sodium , which
> would be deposited in the chondrules. You have to remember that most
> chondrules formed before the sun did ,so there was nothing to drive the gasses
> away which could allow higher than expected sodium in chondrules. Once the sun
> ignited any surface gasses would be driven away but any trapped sodium would
> remain.
    Higher sodium values do not prove higher concentrations of gasses
> at formation. If they were higher they would permeate the entire structure
> rather than be on the surface of the crystals,  much the way salt concentrates
> on the surface of ice crystals in the arctic.
 Just my opinion
Steve
> Dunklee



--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
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