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We present results of a magnetic survey of achondritic meteorites, representing the aubrites (A), diogenites (D), Irowardites (H), and eucrites (E) groups and relate their magnetic behavior to respective class characteristics and models of origin.
Magnetic susceptibility (x) values cluster well within each group and decrease systematically between groups (from ∼2 to 0.1×10−3GOe−1 cm−3), with the average metal contents, (from ∼1 to <0.1 wt%) in the above order. The natural remanent magnetization (NRM) values range broadly within each group, but group averages decrease roughly as above. However, the considerable within-sample and intra-group variability in NRM level and its demagnetization characteristics attest to inhomogeneous and localized brecciation effects. Although petrological-chemical studies resolve a primary component of magmatic differentiation on the planetoid of origin, no clear magnetic record of such event has been preserved. The magnetization of achondrites is mainly the product of their complex, multi-stage impact brecciation and metamorphism history, in accord with other lines of evidence.
The magnetic behavior of achondrites is remarkably similar to that characteristic of lunar breccias and impact-melt rocks and reinforces their analogous mode of genesis, as brought out by chemical and petrographic analyses.
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Brecher, A., Fuhrman, M. & Stein, J. The magnetic effects of brecciation and shock in meteorites: III. The achondrites. The Moon and the Planets 20, 265–279 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00907579
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