^1,2Atsushi Takenouchi,³Hirochika Sumino,⁴Karin Shimodate,²Akira Yamaguchi
Meteoritics & Planetary Science (in Press) Link to Article [https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13768]
¹The Kyoto University Museum, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan
²National Institute of Polar Research, 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo, 190-8518 Japan
³General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902 Japan
⁴Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8654 Japan
Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons

LL chondrites have experienced multiple shock events; however, the relations of each shock event and their timing have rarely been investigated. To demonstrate the relations between each shock texture and shock chronological ages, we conducted both petrological and chronological (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar and I-Xe ages) studies using aliquots subsampled from the same chip of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 2139 LL6 chondrite. Our ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar studies and petrological observation reveal that NWA 2139 recorded at least three impact events before 4.17 ± 0.10 Ga, thus resulting in a complex brecciated texture, silicate darkening, and thick shock veins. An intense heating event occurred at 4.17 ± 0.10 Ga, which recrystallized the thick veins and healing cracks. Then, a weak shock event occurred at <3.9 Ga. Combined with ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar data of other LL chondritic materials, this study supports that the LL chondrite parent body was possibly broken up by 1.7 Ga, and that most of the breakup likely occurred within 3.8–4.2 Ga.