Ancient asteroids reveal that the first solar system was more chaotic than we thought
There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young Solar System as rocks, blocks, and planetesimals repeatedly collided. A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into Earth sets a timeline apart from this chaos. Astronomers know that asteroids have remained essentially unchanged since their formation …
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