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June 30, 2016

Researchers trace Mercury's origins to rare meteorite
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 30, 2016
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the universe was a chaos of collapsing gas and spinning debris. Small particles of gas and dust clumped together into larger and more massive meteoroids that in turn smashed together to form planets. Scientists believe that shortly after their formation, these planets - and particularly Mercury - were fiery spheres of molten material, which cooled over millions of years. Now, geologists at MIT have traced part of Mercury's cooling history and found that between 4.2 an ... read more

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