A multi-institutional team of planetary scientists has learned more about the early composition of the solar system by studying a meteorite named Northwest Africa 14250. In their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the group used a scanning tunneling microscope to learn more about the isotopic makeup of clasts inside the sample.
Study of meteorite 'Northwest Africa 14250' reveals composition of the early solar system retrieved 17 June 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-06-meteorite-northwest-africa-reveals-composition.html
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