Using radioisotope dating, scientists at the University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum in London determined that the salt crystals probably formed within about two million years of the solar system's birth. If this age is correct, it means that the dust, gas, and ice swirling around the newborn sun clumped together into rocky fragments far more quickly than researchers have assumed. These fragments were the parent bodies for primitive meteorites like Zag and the essential building blocks for asteroids and planets
13 posted on 01/25/2006 11:07:38 PM PST by Moonman62
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