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Family of Oddball Meteorites Stumped Researchers for Decades – Now an Answer to the Puzzling Chimera – SciTechDaily
Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core. Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that th…
Samples from a rare meteorite family, including the one shown here, reveal that their parent planetesimal, formed in the earliest stages of the solar system, was a complex, layered object, with a molten core and solid crust similar to Earth. Credit: Carl Agee, Institute of Meteoritics, University of New Mexico. Background edited by MIT News.
Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core.
Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of pl…
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