Giant mud balls roamed the early solar system Rethinking early asteroids’ rockiness could solv some meteorite mysteries. By Lisa Grossman Science News, August 4, 2017 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/giant-mud-balls-roamed-early-solar-system
Early solar system may have slung giant mud balls. The first asteroids may not have been so rocky, explaining some meteorite mysteries. By Lisa Grossman Science News for Students, August 4, 2017 https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/early-solar-system-may-have-slung-giant-mud-balls The paper is: Bland, P.A., and B.J. Travis. 2017. Giant convecting mud balls of the early solar system. Science Advances. Published online July 14, 2017. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602514. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1602514 Also, there is: The solar system's earliest asteroids may have all been massive. A new analysis offers new clues to how planetary building blocks form By Maria Temming, August 3, 2017 The paper is: Delbo, M., K. Walsh, B. Bolin, C. Avdellidou, and, A. Morbidelli. 2017. Identification of a primordial asteroid family constrains the original planetesimals population. Science. Published online August 3, 2017. doi: 10.1126/science.aam6036. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/08/02/science.aam6036 Yours, Paul H.
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