Here, this hypothesis is tested with a model of equilibrium condensation of such a 'fireball'. Recognizing that present understanding of plume interactions with an atmosphere is not profound, we also explored the consequences of mixing air into the plume. The 18 elements H, C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, P, S, K, Ca, Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni are included here. The data and models are used here somewhat above the temperatures for which they were initially calibrated, rendering the results less quantitatively exact than might be desired. Earth air was added so that the total number of atoms of air was twice the total number of atoms in the air-free bulk composition.
Silicate liquid is the first condensate in all cases.
Some Ni would, in a real vapor, condense as oxide in the spinel. LPS XXIX , Abs. The University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago Denton Ebel home page.