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An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites – techtoday19
An origin story for a family of oddball meteorites by Jennifer Chu for MIT News Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Samples from a rare meteorite family, including the one shown here, reveal that their parent planetesimal, formed in the earliest stages of the solar …
An origin story for a family of oddball meteoritesby Jennifer Chu for MIT NewsBoston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history or remained as piles of unmelted rubble.
But a family of meteorites has befuddled researchers since its discovery in the 1960s. The diverse fragments, found …
