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Space Science Reviews… Solar System Birth

Just up on Space Science Reviews site:

Schönbächler, M. Bouvier, A. Kita, N. T. et al.  Initial Conditions of Planet Formation: Time Constraints from Small Bodies and the Lifetime of Reservoirs in the Solar Protoplaneta… Art 97 s11214-025-01216-z

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: unmelted asteroids (“chondrites”, the majority of them) and their fragments, chondritic meteorites, preserve signs from the early Solar System, where planets and other melted bodies don’t. We turn to these frozen relics of that earlier time to figure out as best we can what the Solar System used to look like- what our very history looked like. Using certain clues from certain elements (including radioactive ones, and their daughter products), as well as chondrules themselves, Schönbächler have written a summary of our current knowledge. As befits Space Science Reviews, this is a review article, maybe a bit long for the impatient, but maybe rewarding for the studious.

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