Chemical Clues Point To Dusty Origin For Earth-like Planets
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 14:21
in Astronomy & Space
Higher than expected levels of sodium found in a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed.
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