Tetrataenite in Carbonaceous Chondrites

Abstract

Presence of tetrataenite grains has been recently confirmed in Yamato 791717 carbonaceous (CO3) chondrite. The observed coexistence of tetrataenite fine grains with more abundant magnetite and kamacite in this CO3 chondrite suggests that the tetrataenite grains were directly formed by a coalescence process of Fe and Ni fine particle smokes in the solar nebula.