Notesco G, Laufer D, Bar-Nun A, Owen T
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Icarus. 1999 Nov;142(1):298-300. doi: 10.1006/icar.1999.6202.
The isotopic enrichment of argon, krypton, and xenon, when trapped in water ice, was studied experimentally. The isotopes were found to be enriched according to their (m1/m2)1/2 ratio. These enrichment factors could be useful for comparison among the uncertain cosmic or solar isotopic ratios, the hopeful in situ cometary ratio, and those in Earth's atmosphere, in the context of cometary delivery of volatiles to Earth.