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Meteorite Records History of Planets Friday, October 31, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Meteorites that are among the oldest rocks ever found have provided new clues about the conditions that existed at the beginning of the solar system, solving a longstanding mystery and overturning some accepted ideas about the way planets form. The ancient meteorites, like disk drives salvaged from an ancient computer, still contain magnetic records about the very early history of planets, according to research by MIT planetary scientist Benjamin P. Weiss. (source: web.mit.edu)
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