Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
News and Views
Nature 432, 957-958 (23 December 2004) | doi:10.1038/432957a; Published online 22 December 2004
Open Innovation Challenges
-
Direct Molecular Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Id...
-
Single-cell Analysis Platform
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to analyzing changes at a single-cell level. This is...
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Tenure-track Faculty Positions
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Electrophysiologist
- TCG Lifesciences Ltd
- Kolkata India
Early Solar System: Shock fronts in Hawaii
Alan P. Boss1
Abstract
The most vexing question in meteoritics is on the verge of being answered — what process led to the small droplets of primordial dust that are found throughout the most primitive meteorites?
The meteorites and comets that were formed in the solar nebula, the planet-forming disk of gas and dust that became our Solar System, have been largely unaltered over time, and their structure provides clues about the physical and chemical processes that occurred in the nebula. One group of early meteorites, chondritic meteorites, are composed largely of chondrules — millimetre-sized spheroids with well-defined edges resembling "drops of fiery rain"1.
- Alan P. Boss is in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington DC 20015-1305, USA.
e-mail: Email: boss@dtm.ciw.edu
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.
NEWS AND VIEWS
Meteoritics How to make a chondruleNature News and Views (25 May 2006)
Geochemistry The clock's second handNature News and Views (16 Sep 2004)
See all 9 matches for News And ViewsRESEARCH
Young chondrules in CB chondrites from a giant impact in the early Solar SystemNature Letters to Editor (18 Aug 2005)
Mg isotope evidence for contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusionsNature Letters to Editor (16 Sep 2004)
Chondrule formation in particle-rich nebular regions at least hundreds of kilometres acrossNature Letters to Editor (25 May 2006)
See all 16 matches for Research