Heavy iron isotope composition of iron meteorites explained by core crystallization

Ni, Peng; Chabot, Nancy L.; Ryan, Caillin J.; Shahar, Anat
2020
NATURE GEOSCIENCE
DOI
10.1038/s41561-020-0617-y
Experiments show that the iron isotopic composition of iron meteorites can be explained by core crystallization, and suggest the presence of sulfur-rich core material that remains unsampled by meteorite collections.