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MIT: An Origin Story for a Family of Oddball Meteorites
July 25, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 25 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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Study suggests the rare objects likely came from an early planetesimal with a magnetic core.

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Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history o . . .

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