This meteorite’s diamonds hint that it was born in a lost planet
The space rock could come from a Mars-sized protoplanet in the early solar system
HERE TODAY Violent collisions in the early solar system, illustrated here, probably broke apart would-be planets — but diamonds forged in those planets’ cores may have made it to Earth as meteorites.
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A chunk of space rock may have been forged inside a long-lost planet from the early solar system.