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Investigating chronological evidence of a giant impact in the early history of asteroid Vesta

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K03946
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 17010:Space and planetary sciences-related
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Haba Makiko  東京工業大学, 理学院, 助教 (30598438)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
KeywordsVesta / zircon / U-Pb / Pu-Xe / HED / meteorite / HED隕石 / 小惑星ベスタ / 大規模衝突 / 高精度U-Pb年代分析 / Nb-Zr相対年代測定 / ユークライト / 隕石ジルコン / U-Pb年代 / (U-Th)/He年代 / ジルコン / ID-TIMS / ラマン分光分析 / 年代測定 / 分化天体 / 隕石年代学
Outline of Research at the Start

小惑星ベスタは分化天体であり,隕石を用いた物質的研究と探査機による観察が行われている唯一の小惑星である.そのため,ベスタにおける隕石研究と探査研究は,双方の研究の組み合わせによる新しい研究の展開を考える上で重要である.ベスタ起源隕石から,ベスタは30-60 kmの原始地殻を保持する稀有な天体と考えられてきたが,探査の結果,ベスタの地殻は85 km以上に達することが明らかになった。これらの矛盾する結果に対し,ベスタが形成初期に大規模衝突を経験し内部構造が変化したとする説が提唱されている.本研究ではベスタの大規模衝突に関する仮説に対して,ベスタ起源隕石の年代測定を行い検証することを試みる.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To explore the possibility of giant impacts during the early formation of asteroid Vesta, age measurements of HED meteorites, which originate from Vesta, were conducted for geochronological verification. Firstly, high-precision U-Pb dating was performed using zircons in basaltic eucrites to verify if the age of the impacts could be determined. The age of zircons in the Camel Donga meteorite, used in this study, successfully reduced the error margin associated with traditional methods to less than one-tenth. However, all the zircon grains analyzed indicated the age of crust formation. Additionally, the 244Pu-Xe dating of whole rock howardite samples yielded ages corresponding to the early evolution of Vesta, but did not detect the age of a giant impact.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

小惑星ベスタにおける巨大衝突の可能性を探るため,ジルコンの高精度U-Pb年代測定法の改良に取り組んだ.HED隕石中のジルコンはベスタの地殻の初期進化を考える上で重要な年代情報を与えるが,ジルコンの粒径が小さいため,二次イオン質量分析計を用いた年代測定が行われている.この手法では年代に対して2000万年以上の誤差がつくため,初期イベントを年代学的に分離するために高精度な年代が必要とされている.本研究では年代誤差を100万年以下に低減することに成功しており,本手法が複数のHED隕石に適応されることで,ベスタの地殻の形成史が明らかになり,原始惑星の進化プロセスへの理解が深まることが期待される.

Report

(6 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Giant impact onto a Vesta-like asteroid and formation of mesosiderites through mixing of metallic core and surface crust2022

    • Author(s)
      Sugiura Keisuke、Haba Makiko K.、Genda Hidenori
    • Journal Title

      Icarus

      Volume: 379 Pages: 114949-114949

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.icarus.2022.114949

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report 2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Cosmogenic noble gas nuclides in zircons from the Estherville mesosiderite2021

    • Author(s)
      Haba Makiko K.、Nagao Keisuke
    • Journal Title

      Meteoritics & Planetary Science

      Volume: 56 Issue: 5 Pages: 992-1004

    • DOI

      10.1111/maps.13660

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Precise initial abundance of Niobium-92 in the Solar System and implications for p-process nucleosynthesis2021

    • Author(s)
      Haba Makiko K.、Lai Yi-Jen、Wotzlaw Jorn-Frederik、Yamaguchi Akira、Lugaro Maria、Schonbachler Maria
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

      Volume: 118 Issue: 8 Pages: 1-7

    • DOI

      10.1073/pnas.2017750118

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report 2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] ID-TIMS zircon U?Pb geochronology of the Camel Donga eucrite2021

    • Author(s)
      Haba Makiko K.、Wotzlaw Jorn-Frederik
    • Journal Title

      Chemical Geology

      Volume: 567 Pages: 120073-120073

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120073

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report 2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Mesosiderite formation on asteroid 4 Vesta by a hit-and-run collision2019

    • Author(s)
      Makiko K. Haba, Jorn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Yi-Jen Lai, Akira Yamaguchi, Maria Schonbachler
    • Journal Title

      Nature Geoscience

      Volume: 12 Issue: 7 Pages: 510-515

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41561-019-0377-8

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 隕石ジルコンを用いた宇宙線照射年代測定法2022

    • Author(s)
      羽場麻希子、長尾敬介
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 消滅核種ニオブ92の太陽系初生存在度の高精度決定2021

    • Author(s)
      羽場麻希子
    • Organizer
      第68回日本地球化学会年会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 隕石ジルコンの高精度CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb年代測定2020

    • Author(s)
      羽場麻希子、Jorn-Frederik Wotzlaw
    • Organizer
      2020年度 日本地球化学会年会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Chronological Evidence for Mesosiderite Formation on Vesta by a Hit-and-Run Collision2019

    • Author(s)
      Makiko K. Haba, Jorn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Yi-Jen Lai, Akira Yamaguchi, Maria Schonbachler
    • Organizer
      The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 小惑星ベスタでの巨大衝突によるメソシデライトの形成2019

    • Author(s)
      羽場麻希子,Jorn-Frederik Wotzlaw, Yi-Jen Lai, 山口亮, Maria Schonbachler
    • Organizer
      2019年度 日本地球化学会年会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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