A group of investigators from the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) say that they managed to come up with a new hypothesis for the origins of crater ejecta. These formations are produced from the debris released when a meteorite impacts the ground.
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28 September 2011
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According to the conclusions of two new scientific studies, it would appear that the material which makes up Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars did not originate in the protoplanetary disk around the Sun. When the star formed, not all of the gas clouds that collapsed to ignite it made it into the star. The leftover mater... |
24 June 2011
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For decades, astronomers have had problems with explaining the very structure of the solar system, as in figuring out why is it that planets and asteroid belts within are arranged the way they are. A new theory now explains the structure of the solar neighborhood with great elegance.When looking at our solar system f... |
10 December 2010
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Scientists have tried for a long time to figure out how the elements necessary for life might appear on other planets. One of the preferred ways to do this was with the help of a computer model, which simulated the interactions that appeared between a number of chemical elements, and determined the probability of the... |
29 October 2009
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Rocky planets similar to our own could be forming in the Pleiades cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday. HD 23514, a star within the cluster is surrounded by a number of hot dust particles that could form the building block necessary to build planets. The discovery of the dust cloud, is the first evidence that r... |
15 November 2007
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