[ad_1] Piece of Meteorite Photo: PETER JENNISKENS Last month, a fireball illuminated the sky over Botswana just hours after scientists first spotted the rock that was heading for the Earth. Researchers from …
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[ad_1] According to new research, at least 85% of the 200,000 asteroids in the internal asteroid belt – the main source of terrestrial meteorites – come from five or six major primordial …
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[ad_1] At first, the solar system was little more than a cloud of dust and gas. Then cold temperatures shattered the center of the cloud, forming the sun. The fledgling star is …
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