title: Sulfur in achondritic meteorites.
abstract: Total sulfur abundances have been measured for 48 achondrites.  For twenty eucrites they ranged from 370 to 3700 micrograms S/g with a median sulfur content of 1180 micrograms S/g.  Sulfur abundances for howardites ranged from 1490 to 3240 micrograms S /g and had a median sulfur concentration of 2340 micrograms S/g.  Diogenites' sulfur abundances ranged from 130 to 3170 micrograms S/g, with a median value of 1280 micrograms S/g.  Four shergottites had a median sulfur content of 1940 micrograms S/g and ranged from 740 to 2540 micrograms S/g.  Enstatite achondrites contained the greatest sulfur abundances of any achondrite group.  They ranged from 2450 to 8580 micrograms S/g and had a median sulfur content of 6020 micrograms S/g and had a median sulfur content of 6020 micrograms S/g.  A single Chassignite had a sulfur concentration of 360 micrograms S/g.  The wide variations in sulfur concentrations for the achondrites reflect the small scale heterogeneous nature of these unique extraterrestrial materials due in large part to discrete sulfide mineral grains.
authors.affiliation: Experimental Planetology Branch, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Primus
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D055593:Geological Phenomena; D005844:Geology; D018535:Mars; D019110:Meteoroids; D016081:Moon; D016082:Solar System; D013455:Sulfur / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D013455:Sulfur