The University of Arizona: LPL Evening Lecture – Relics of a Time Long Past: Deciphering the Origins of Our Planetary System Through Analysis of Returned Samples
Our solar system formed from a spinning cloud of gas and dust some 4.5 billion years ago. Our understanding of this early solar nebula has largely been developed through the decades-long study of meteorites, rocks from asteroids that hurtled through space before eventually arriving on Earth. Asteroids are remnants of the earliest days of our...
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