In situ analysis of Refractory Metal Nuggets in carbonaceous chondrites

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the Australian Research Council via their Australian Laureate Fellowship program. This research was undertaken on the XFM beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia. The authors acknowledge the facilities, and the scientific and technical assistance, of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at the Australian Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the University of Sydney and the Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis, University of Western Australia. The authors would also like to thank the rest of the Desert Fireball Network research group as well as Mr. Timmons Erikson, Mr. Mark Daly, Ms. Mary Munroe, Ms. Sarah Hayes and Ms. Jennifer Porter for their assistance. Finally the authors would like to thank the three reviewers, as well as associate editor Nicolas Dauphas for their constructive comments and suggestions which significantly improved this manuscript.