Researchers use unusual meteorite to gain insight into our solar system’s past, present. Scientists knew a burst of UV light left its mark on our solar system. Now they know the source of that light.
In 2011, scientists confirmed a suspicion: There was a split in the local cosmos. Samples of the solar wind brought back to Earth by the Genesis mission definitively determined oxygen isotopes in the sun differ from those found on Earth, the moon and the other planets and satellites in the solar system.
Early in the solar system’s history, material that would later coalesce into planets had been hit with a hefty dose of ultraviolet light, which can explain this difference...
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