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US Scientists Literally Baked Meteorites in a Lab to Recreate the Formation of Planets
News 18A team of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the US are baking up meteorites in order to seek answers regarding the formation of planets. One of the co-authors of the study Myrian Telus spoke of the study, “We’re trying to simulate in the laboratory this very early process when a planet’s atmosphere is forming so we can put some experimental constraints on that story.” The study, originally published in the journal Nature Astronomy, talks about how these building blocks of a planet come together and results in the material is heated and gases are produced. Also, they believe these space rocks contain some original elements that can help them to understand the composition of the photo voltaic system across eons of planet formation. Water vapour, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxides were found primarily along with some amount of hydrogen and hydrogen sulfide gases too.
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