Heating experiments of the Tagish Lake meteorite: Investigation of the effects of short-term heating on chondritic organics

• Published in: Meteoritics & Planetary Science
• Main Authors: Chan, Queenie H. S., Nakato, Aiko ;
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Ryugu; Tagish; Tagish Lake
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/56838/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/56838/1/56838.pdf; https://oro.open.ac.uk/56838/8/Chan_et_al-2019-Meteoritics_%26_Planetary_Science.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13193

We present in this study the effects of short-term heating on organics in the Tagish Lake meteorite and how the difference in the heating conditions can modify the organic matter (OM) in a way that complicates the interpretation of a parent body’s heating extent with common cosmothermometers. The ki...