3:30–4:45 pm MCP 201
Primitive meteorites preserve a record of the early Solar System, capturing conditions that existed before the formation of planetary building blocks. These records include distinctive isotopic signatures inherited from previous generations of stars, as well as those shaped by processes and reservoirs within the solar nebula. They also contain spallogenic nuclides produced by interactions with solar and galactic cosmic rays. In this talk, I will discuss how we extract and analyze these records in the laboratory from meteoritic samples, and how we use them to gain a better understanding of the evolution of the solar nebula and the young Sun.