February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...Horst R. Marschall, Francis M. McCubbin, Brian D. Monteleone (2014) Early accretion of water in the inner solar system from a carbonaceous chondrite-like source. Science Vol. 346 no. 6209 pp. 623-626 DOI: 10.1126/science.1256717. 8 Raup, D.; Sepkoski...
04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
... is also found in the atmospheres of some of the planets. It is also one of the dominant compounds found in some carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that have crash-landed in various locations on Earth. The amount of nitrogen in our solar system, along...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
...which was first discovered in 1849, is thought to consist mostly of carbon – a material similar to that found in carbonaceous chondrite (stony, non-metallic) meteorites. It is the largest of the class of dark C-type asteroids that are dominant in the...
