Iron Meteorites as the Not-So-Distant Cousins of Earth

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ljk — 7/23/2006 6:07:07 AM (archived)

Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD]

New Issue: Iron Meteorites as the Not-So-Distant Cousins of Earth

--- Numerical simulations suggest that some iron meteorites are fragments of the long lost precursor material that formed the Earth and other terrestrial planets.

Full story with animated plots and pdf link at:

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/July06/asteroidGatecrashers.html

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PSRD is an educational journal supported by NASA's Cosmochemistry Program and the Hawaii Space Grant Consortium to share the latest research on meteorites, planets, and other solar system bodies.

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Meteoritical and dynamical constraints on the growth mechanisms and formation times of asteroids and Jupiter - LJK - 7/17/2006 3:31:31 PM
- Iron Meteorites as the Not-So-Distant Cousins of Earth - ljk - 7/23/2006 6:07:07 AM
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