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Heymann & Palma 1986
Heymann, D. and Palma, R.L. (1986). Discovery of solar wind neon in the Allende meteorite. Journal of Geophysical Research 91. doi: 10.1029/JB091iB04p0D460. issn: 0148-0227.

Inert gases have been measured in seven sieve fractions of a disaggregated sample of the Allende meteorite. The disaggregation was done by ultrasonic treatment in water and by freeze-thawing. This sample constitutes the first gas-rich portion known to occur in the Allende meteorite. The composition of the trapped neon is solar, i.e., Neon-B, and the gas-rich samples contain more trapped 20Ne than 36Ar. The set of sieve fractions show an anticorrelation of 20Ne content and grain size. Gas-richness seems to be quite common among the CV3 meteorites with Allende added to the earlier known cases of Mokoia, Vigarano, and Efremovka.

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