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4.6-billion-year-old meteorite belongs to Earth’s long-lost baby cousin – Livescience.com
A protoplanet in the early solar system spawned a unique type of meteorite.
A lonely meteorite that landed in the Sahara Desert in 2020 is older than Earth
. The primeval space rock is about 4.6 billion years old, and is the oldest known example of magma from space.
Its age and mineral content hint that the rock originated in our early solar system
from the crust of a protoplanet a large, rocky body in the process of developing into a planet, according to a new study.
The meteorite, called Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), is likely a rare surviving chunk of a lost baby planet…
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