Half-baked Asteroids Have Earth-like Crust
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 15:21
in Astronomy & Space
Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space, and scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts. But two newly discovered meteorites may rewrite the book on how some asteroids form and evolve.
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