Periodic Table--Palladium
107Pd decays by emission to 107Ag with a half-life
of 6.5 Myr. Iron meteorites are the only objects with a high enough Pd/Ag
ratio to yield measurable variations in 107Ag abundance. Radiogenic
107Ag was first discovered in the Santa Clara meteorite by Kelly
and Wasserburg (1978). They suggest that the coalescence and differentiation
of iron-cored small planets may have occurred 10 Myr after a nucleosynthetic
event. 107Pd versus Ag correlations observed in bodies, which
have clearly been melted since accretion of the solar system, must reflect
the presence of live short-lived nuclides in the early solar system (Chen
and Wasserburg, 1984, 1990).
Similarities observed between the initial iodine, aluminum and palladium
ratios in meteorites indicate that if the additions of hot material occurred
early in the formation of the solar-system, then their different half-lives
would have attenuated the short-lived nuclides to very different degrees
by the time of condensation (Wasserburg and Papanastassiou, 1982).
Source of text: This review was assembled by Eric Caldwell,
primarily from Dicken (1995).
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