Extended Data Figure 8: Additional planetary cooling models. | Nature

Extended Data Figure 8: Additional planetary cooling models.

From: Long-lived magnetism from solidification-driven convection on the pallasite parent body

Extended Data Figure 8

a, b, Temperatures (a) and cooling rates (b) from the conductive cooling model with a 100-km radius. The cooling rate at 800 K (green line) reaches the inferred values of the Imilac or the Esquel meteorites after complete core solidification. c, d, Temperatures (c) and cooling rate (d) from the conductive cooling model with a 300-km radius. The depths (horizontal black lines) corresponding to the inferred cooling rates at 800 K (green line) for the Imilac and Esquel meteorites reach the tetrataenite formation temperature (593 K, red line) before the core solidification starts.

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