Different meteorites, same birthplace

In the early days of the Solar System, the region just beyond Jupiter’s orbit was a breeding ground for planetesimals, the precursors of planets, asteroids, and comets. As new simulations show, over a period of two million years bodies with very different compositions formed there. The results provide a comprehensive explanation for the diversity of carbonaceous chondrites. These meteorites formed relatively late. For the first time, the new study precisely aligns computer simulations of the early Solar System with laboratory analyses of meteorites.

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