Tuesday 16 April 2019

Comet Ingredients Swallowed by an Asteroid, Found Sealed Inside a Meteorite

Comet Ingredients Swallowed by an Asteroid, Found Sealed Inside a Meteorite

The raw materials from a comet have been found sealed inside a pristine, primitive meteorite. The meteorite was found in the LaPaz icefield of Antarctica and has weathered very little since the time it crashed to Earth. According to a new study published today (April 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers found that this sample of space rock contains something strange: bits of the building blocks of a comet that became trapped in the meteorite's parent asteroid just 3 million years after the solar system formed.
Read more: https://www.livescience.com/65234-comet-ingredients-inside-meteorite.html?source=Snapzu

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