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An anorthositic meteorite supporting an ancient magma ocean on Vesta - Nature Astronomy
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The widespread occurrence of ferroan anorthosites and other magmatic rock types in Apollo lunar samples directly contributed to the construction and development of modern planetary formation models. If the Vesta magma ocean (VMO) model is analogous to the lunar magma ocean model, anorthosites should be present as a late crystallization product of the Vesta magma ocean.
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