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January 21, 2015

Planetary building blocks evolved from porous to hard objects
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 21, 2015
Australian Research Council, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Society, UK Natural Environment Research Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Thinking small has enabled an international team of scientists to gain new insight into the evolution of planetary building blocks in the early solar system. The researchers compared the results of small-scale numerical simulations of colliding rock and dust particles to the composition of meteorites. They found that colli ... read more

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