The size of asteroids in the Solar System's main asteroid belt may help constrain one of the least-understood aspects of planet formation — the transition from pebble-sized dust balls to mountain-sized planetesimals.
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Chambers, J. Archaeology of the asteroid belt. Nature 460, 963–964 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460963a
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