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The timing and duration of the accretion of meteorites and their precursors (e.g. chondrules) is a key part of this story and we have developed several extinct isotope systems (e.g. 26Al – 26Mg) to ...

The key is meteorites. Meteorites bring many different types of material from all over the solar system to Earth where scientists can study them. These materials include chondrules—tiny pieces of dust ...

Meteorites can vary greatly in size. While some are tiny, resembling grains of sand, others can weigh several tons. The ...

A non-carbonaceous, ordinary chondrite is made up of objects called chondrules. The name comes from the Greek word for grain and they’re small, spherical and around one millimetre in size.

Chondrites differ from normal rocks in containing round grains called chondrules that formed as molten droplets in space at the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Iron meteorites are ...

Within this category, chondrites are particularly notable; they contain chondrules, hardened droplets of lava that provide ...

If a corner of a stony meteorite has chipped off, you can often see inside small, round grains, known as chondrules, and metallic grains. The inside is often light in colour, but it can also be almost ...

Dr Jones is a world-renowned expert in how some of the first formed rocky building blocks of our Solar System – mm-sized melt droplets known as chondrules – were formed and then incorporated into ...

According to a statement issued by Nelson Mandela University, the Nqweba Meteorite is believed to be an achondritic meteorite (a stony meteorite that does not contain chondrules), specifically a ...