A new paper on solve the big questions of life.
Asteroids and meteorites are remnants of the early days of our solar system. They are also believed to seed planets with ocean waters and organic material. NASA recently launched the Lucy mission to a collection of rocks known as the Trojan asteroids. NASA calls these rocks time-capsules that have the key to unlocking the origins of our system.
looked into a meteorite using a microscope. The study says the beads were formed by a combination of extreme heat and rapid descending temperatures.
A Snapshot Billions Of Years Ago Of Our Solar System
Nicole Xike Nie, lead author of the study said “meteorites are snapshots that can reveal the conditions this early dust experienced, which has implications for the evolution of both Earth and other planets.” According to the study, billions of years ago when the solar system was forming, planets were superheated and dust flew all over, grouping and forming new celestial bodies. As meteorite material flew close to the extremely hot large planets they were shocked-waved and melted. Later as they moved away into colder regions of space temperatures dropped at rapid rates of up to 500 Celsius per hour vaporizing, condensing, and fusing the tiny glass beads.
Scientists of the University of Chicago described these extreme heating and cooling events as “sudden and violent.” Tiny glass beads are known as chondrules and theories used to believe they were forged our solar system.
Source: Science Daily