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University of Chicago Postdoctoral Scientist Philipp Heck with a sample of the Allende meteorite. The dark portions of the meteorite contain dust grains that formed before the birth of the solar system. The Allenda meteorite is of the same type as the Murchison meteorite, the subject of Heck’s Astrophysical Journal study. (Credit: Dan Dry)
U. CHICAGO (US)—The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets—and life on Earth—has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to an international team of scientists. Continue…
