Cosmogenic nuclides in the Martian meteorites ALHA 77005, Lafayette and Zagami

The availability of effective physical models for the calculation of production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in meteorites allows an exact analysis of the irradiation history of meteorites. The relative errors of calculated production rates lay below 10%. At present, concentration ratios of cosmogenic nuclides can be calculated even with errors of less than 3%. The model used in this work calculates the part of the nuclide production which comes from the interaction of the galactic cosmic radiation with the meteoroid matter. For this reason any other additional production is easily identifiable. Such overproductions are basically caused by two phenomena: complex irradiation histories and the solar cosmic radiation (SCR-effect). In this work the SCR-effect for the cosmogenic radionuclides 10Be, 26Al and 53Mn is demonstrated. (orig.)