The Allende Meteorite Contained an Abundance of ²⁶Mg,an Isotope of Magnesium.What

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Multiple Choice

The Allende meteorite contained an abundance of ²⁶Mg,an isotope of magnesium.What is the significance?

• A) Magnesium has a high melting point, so the asteroid of which Allende was originally a part must have formed in the inner part of the solar system.
• B) ²⁶Mg is radioactive, and the sample was probably produced in a nearby supernova explosion about the time the solar system was formed.
• C) ²⁶Mg is the stable product of the decay of radioactive ²⁶Al. The ²⁶Al from which the ²⁶Mg formed was probably produced in a nearby supernova explosion about the time the solar system was formed.
• D) This discovery suggests that heavy elements such as magnesium were more abundant in the early Kuiper belt than we had originally thought.

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