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Space Sci Rev: Solar Sys. Growth (meta…)

Just now on Space Sci Rev, vol. 221 (all of 2025):

Hezel, D.C. Palme, H. Zipfel, J. et al.  Evolution of the Solar System: Constraints from Meteorites – Editorial  Art 125  s11214-025-01254-7

As with the previous editorial, this is more of a meta-paper. The journal is running a “special issue” (ongoing, now that we’re in the digital era); this “editorial” is a lead-in and context piece, tying all the papers in the special issue together. In particular, the papers all stem from a 2023 meeting at ISSI, Switzerland, on this topic: the formation of our Solar System, from a top-down view (the current state of this System), a bottom-up view (meteorites as examples, in hand, of the building blocks), and a ‘sideways’ view (other, young and forming star systems).

Of relevance to this blog: the catchall term “meteorites” now includes intact specimens recovered from space missions, explicitly known to be free of terrestrial effects (including sampling bias):

“The results of the remarkable samples of asteroids and comets collected during space missions underline the importance of this ground-truth material, given that the returned material was often sufficiently different to initial expectations.”

Remarkable, indeed- read the participants’ remarks on our current knowledge (advanced significantly over the past ~2 decades) of the formation of our Solar System.

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