Asteroidal Differentiation Processes Deduced from Ultramafic Achondrite Ureilite Meteorites
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Hilary Downes, David W Mittlefehldt, Pierre Hudon, Christopher S. Romanek and Ian Franchi Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas, USA ([email protected]); School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK; NASA/Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas, USA; Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 5 Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC, USA; Planetary Sciences Research Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
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