Meteorite Analysis Shows Earth's Building Blocks Contained Water
January 09, 2024
January 09, 2024
PASADENA, California, Jan. 9 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny pebbles of dust coalesced, like a snowball rolling larger and larger, to become kilometer-sized "planetesimals"--the building blocks of Earth and the other inner planets.
Researchers have long tried to unde . . .
When our Sun was a young star, 4.56 billion years ago, what is now our solar system was just a disk of rocky dust and gas. Over tens of millions of years, tiny pebbles of dust coalesced, like a snowball rolling larger and larger, to become kilometer-sized "planetesimals"--the building blocks of Earth and the other inner planets.
Researchers have long tried to unde . . .