Predicted geophysical properties of mixtures of chondrites compared to Mars

Igor graph plot showing the predicted geophysical properties (moment of inertia, density, tidal response k2 and core size) of various isochemical mixtures of primitive meteorites (chondrites) and how they compare to Mars.

Submitted by Christian Liebske, Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Citations

Liebske, C., Khan, A. (2019) On the principal building blocks of Mars and Earth. Icarus, 322, 121-134

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518304949
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.01.014