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Solar System's First Bodies Formed in Fire, Not Ice
Original: Our Solar System Chose Fire Over Ice To Build Its First Bodies
A new report says the first bodies that formed in our solar system were built by heat and fire rather than ice, challenging common assumptions about how the earliest planetesimals came together. The finding suggests rocky, heat-forged material played a bigger role in the solar system's beginnings than icy material, a claim drawing attention from space science readers.
Why now: It challenges established ideas about how the solar system's first solid bodies formed.
Evidence
- Our Solar System Chose Fire Over Ice To Build Its First Bodies · Astrobiology Web
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