Timing of the magmatic activity and upper crustal cooling of differentiated asteroid 4 Vesta

F Jourdan, T Kennedy, GK Benedix, E Eroglu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Eucrites are extraterrestrial basalts and cumulate gabbros formed, and subsequently more
or less metamorphosed, at the crustal level of the HED (Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite) parent …

In situ Pb‐Pb dating of silica‐rich Northwest Africa (NWA) 6594 basaltic eucrite and its constraint on thermal history of the Vestan crust

S Liao, W Hsu, Y Wang, Y Li, C Tang… - Meteoritics & Planetary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Eucrites represent one of the major lithologies of the Vestan upper crust, which had
experienced pervasive and intense thermal metamorphism. To better constrain the timing …