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Volume 155, Number 21 (May 22, 1999)

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Asteroids formed early on in solar history

A new study corroborates theoretical models suggesting that some of the large building blocks of planets formed, heated up, then cooled down within the first 5 million years of the birth of the solar system.

References:

Srinivasan G., J.N. Goswami, and N. Bhandari. 1999. 26Al in eucrite Piplia Kalan: Plausible heat source and formation chronology. Science 284(May 21):1348.

Sources:

Narendra Bhandari
Physical Research Laboratory
Group SOSGE
Ahmedabad 380 009
India

Jitendranath N. Goswami
Physical Research Laboratory
Group SOSGE
Ahmedabad 380 009
India

Gopalan Srinivasan
Physical Research Laboratory
Group SOSGE
Ahmedabad 380 009
India

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 21, May 22, 1999, p. 325. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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