Joanna Drążkowska

Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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Solar system's first bodies built mostly from heat-forged rock, not ice

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The solar system's first solid bodies were built mostly from heat-forged rock, not ice. Chemical tracers in ancient iron meteorites show the earliest planetesimals were 83% to 92% chondrules, with only 8% to 17% of the fine, ice-rich dust scientists call matrix.

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