[meteorite-list] Higher than expected levels of sodium ... suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed.

From: Ted Bunch <tbear1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:56:50 -0700
Message-ID: <C48280E2.6AEF%tbear1_at_cableone.net>

Sounds like a good opinion to me -

Ted Bunch


On 6/21/08 9:48 AM, "Steve Dunklee" <sdunklee72520 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ionized particles in the early formation of chondrules would hold a charge.
> This charge would hold sodium vapor rather than allowing it to be driven away,
> much the way a sodium vapor lamp works. In effect the charge in addition to
> the low gravity would would tend to concentrate the available sodium , which
> would be deposited in the chondrules. You have to remember that most
> chondrules formed before the sun did ,so there was nothing to drive the gasses
> away which could allow higher than expected sodium in chondrules. Once the sun
> ignited any surface gasses would be driven away but any trapped sodium would
> remain.
    Higher sodium values do not prove higher concentrations of gasses
> at formation. If they were higher they would permeate the entire structure
> rather than be on the surface of the crystals, much the way salt concentrates
> on the surface of ice crystals in the arctic.
 Just my opinion
Steve
> Dunklee



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