28 days ago · Global
From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies
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When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically had a choice between two ingredients: heat-forged chondrules, which were millimeter-sized bits of rock, and matrix, a fine-grained, cold dust loaded with water ice and organic molecules. And from the get-go…
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From the start, the solar system chose fire over ice to build its first bodies
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