Chondritic meteorites are remnants of the ancient Solar System. Analysis of the dust rims often found on their constituent particles shows that the rims were swept up while the particles wafted about and collided in a weakly turbulent protoplanetary nebula.
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Cuzzi, J. Gathering dust. Nature Geosci 4, 219–220 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1112
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