The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual asteroids. NASA/McREL One family of asteroids The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types into specific asteroid families …
Our early solar system had a gap between its inner and outer regions even when it was just a swirling mass of gas and dust, a new study reveals. In the early solar system, the 'protoplanetary disk' of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today Previously, scientists have proposed that this …
A 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 …
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