Oxygen Isotopes of Anhydrous Primary Minerals Show Kinship Between Asteroid Ryugu and Comet 81P/Wild2

• Published in: Science advances Vol. 8; no. 50; p. eade2067
• Main Authors: Kawasaki, Noriyuki, Nagashima, Kazuhide, Sakamoto, Naoya, Matsumoto, Toru, Bajo, Ken-ichi, Wada, Sohei, Igami, Yohei, Miyake, Akira, Noguchi, Takaaki, Yamamoto, Daiki, Russell, Sara S, Abe, Yoshinari, Aléon, Jérôme, Alexander, Conel M O'D, Amari, Sachiko, Amelin, Yuri, Bizzarro, Martin, Bouvier, Audrey, Carlson, Richard W, Chaussidon, Marc, Choi, Byeon-Gak, Dauphas, Nicolas, Rocco, Tommaso Di, Fujiya, Wataru, Fukai, Ryota, Gautam, Ikshu, Haba, Makiko K, Hibiya, Yuki, Hidaka, Hiroshi, Homma, Hisashi, Hoppe, Peter, Huss, Gary R, Ichida, Kiyohiro, Iizuka, Tsuyoshi, Ireland, Trevor R, Ishikawa, Akira, Ito, Motoo, Itoh, Shoichi, Kita, Noriko T, Kitajima, Kouki, Kleine, Thorsten, Komatani, Shintaro, Krot, Alexander N, Liu, Ming-Chang, Masuda, Yuki, McKeegan, Kevin D, Morita, Mayu, Motomura, Kazuko, Moynier, Frédéric, Nakai, Izumi, Nguyen, Ann, Nittler, Larry, Onose, Morihiko, Pack, Andreas, Park, Changkun, Piani, Laurette, Qin, Liping, Schönbächler, Maria, Tafla, Lauren, Tang, Haolan, Terada, Kentaro, Terada, Yasuko, Usui, Tomohiro, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Walker, Richard J, Yamashita, Katsuyuki, Yin, Qing-Zhu, Yokoyama, Tetsuya, Yoneda, Shigekazu, Young, Edward D, Yui, Hiroharu, Zhang, Ai-Cheng, Nakamura, Tomoki, Naraoka, Hiroshi, Okazaki, Ryuji, Sakamoto, Kanako, Yabuta, Hikaru, Abe, Masanao, Miyazaki, Akiko, Nakato, Aiko, Nishimura, Masahiro, Okada, Tatsuaki, Yada, Toru, Yogata, Kasumi, Nakazawa, Satoru, Saiki, Takanao, Tanaka, Satoshi, Terui, Fuyuto, Tsuda, Yuichi, Watanabe, Sei-ichiro, Yoshikawa, Makoto, Tachibana, Shogo, Yurimoto, Hisayoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Johnson Space Center American Association For The Advancement of Science 16.12.2022; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); AAAS; American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences; Geochemistry; Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration; Planetary Science; SciAdv r-articles; Science & Technology; Sciences of the Universe
• ISSN: 2375-2548; 2375-2548
• DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade2067

The extraterrestrial materials returned from asteroid (162173) Ryugu consist predominantly of low-temperature aqueously formed secondary minerals and are chemically and mineralogically similar to CI (Ivuna-type) carbonaceous chondrites. Here we show that high-temperature anhydrous primary minerals in Ryugu and CI chondrites exhibit a bimodal distribution of oxygen isotopic compositions: 16O-rich (associated with refractory inclusions) and 16O-poor (associated with chondrules). Both the 16O-rich and 16O-poor minerals probably formed in the inner solar protoplanetary disk and were subsequently transported outwards. The abundance ratios of the 16O-rich to 16O-poor minerals in Ryugu and CI chondrites are higher than in other carbonaceous chondrite groups, but are similar to that of comet 81P/Wild2, suggesting that Ryugu and CI chondrites accreted in the outer Solar System closer to the accretion region of comets.