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A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called ...
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SAN ANTONIO — November 12, 2024 — A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to ...