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Interstellar Molecules in Meteorites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

J. F. Kerridge*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics, UCLA

Abstract

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Substantial enrichment of deuterium, D, in certain components of chondritic meteorites is interpreted as a record of isotopic fractionation during ion-molecule reactions at the very low temperatures characteristic of dense interstellar clouds. Whether those meteorites still contain the actual molecules that were synthesised in the presolar interstellar medium, or whether the interstellar material was recycled into a later generation of molecules within the early solar system is not known.

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Type
Section VII : Interstellar Dust and the Solar System
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989