Abstract
Niobium-92 (92Nb) decays to zirconium-92 (92Zr) with a half-life of 36 million years and can be used to place constraints on the site of p-process nucleosynthesis and the timing of early solar system processes. Recent results have suggested that the initial 92Nb/93Nb of the solar system was high (> 10-3). We report Nb-Zr internal isochrons for the ordinary chondrite Estacado (H6) and a clast of the mesosiderite Vaca Muerta, both of which define an initial 92Nb/93Nb ratio of ∼10-5. Therefore, the solar system appears to have started with a ratio of
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1705-1708 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 295 |
| Issue number | 5560 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2002 |