posted on 2021-04-08, 22:57authored byJENNIFER TALLIS MITCHELL
Asteroid 4 Vesta is a surprisingly complex body, recording a vast range of processes and
lithologies with many more likely unsampled by the global meteorite collection. Through
multiple modelling and experimental techniques, I have explored Vesta’s magmatic evolution
and crustal processes with reference to observations from NASA’s Dawn mission and the howardite-eucrite-diogenite meteorite suite in order to answer longstanding questions regarding the petrogenesis of diogenites and their relationship to eucrites, as well as suggesting what would be expected of the unsampled Vestan mantle.