What Makes a Meteorite a Time Capsule?
Meteorites are more than rocks from space. Their minerals, isotopes and tiny chondrules preserve a record of how the young Solar System took shape—and what they cannot tell us.
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Meteorite Dust Records a Magnetic Field That Shaped the Young Solar System
A fragment of meteorite has preserved a magnetic snapshot from the first days of the Solar System. By studying microscopic dust inside the meteorite, researchers estimate that the disk around…