April 2024 Virtual Meeting

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Monday, April 8, 2024
6:00 - 7:30 pm

Note: ETGS members participating virtually will receive an email with info for attending/logging into the meeting.

 

Award Winning Student Presentation

Thermal Evolution of Enstatite Chondrite and Aubrite Parent Bodies: Constraints from Silicate Geothermometry
 

By

Emily Etheridge
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
PhD Candidate
 

Abstract

In this project we apply several geothermometers and geospeedometers to enstatite chondrites and aubrites to clarify the complex thermal history of their parent bodies. These meteorites, which have been interpreted to originate from the inner solar system, will help to constrain conditions on inner solar system parent bodies, such as peak temperatures, the temporal effects and distribution of short-lived radionuclides, and heating and cooling mechanisms that affected planetesimals, including potential fragmentation-reassembly events that appear to have disrupted several other meteorite parent bodies. Preliminary results agree with the suggestion that several parent bodies are required to explain the diversity in cooling history displayed by enstatite chondrites and aubrites.
 

 

Biography
 

Emily Etheridge is a first-year PhD student from Rhode Island studying igneous petrology and geochemistry. Her projects focus on high temperature and high pressure systems, from oceanic lithosphere lower crustal and upper mantle exposures along the Southern Mariana Trench Forearc to meteorites from various planetary bodies. She received her BS in Planetary Science from Marietta College in May of 2023, where she conducted preliminary analysis for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission and examined howardite Larkman Nunatak 12326 to better understand surface mixing processes on asteroid 4Vesta. Emily aspires to become a professor after completing her PhD.

Greetings, and welcome to the April 8, 2024 ETGS virtual meeting.
 

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Thank you for your patience and understanding as we try this online format. As always, we welcome and appreciate your feedback and suggestions for improvement.

 

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