Sentences with phrase «called carbonaceous chondrites»
One type, called carbonaceous chondrites, contain some of the most - primitive known samples of Solar System material, including a lot more xenon than is found in our own planet's atmosphere.
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Most knowledge about the first solid bodies in the solar system comes from meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites, thought to be chunks of the first asteroids.
Water and other volatile elements arrived on Earth via meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites.
Some of that water was contained as ice in primitive meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites.
Not exact matches
The so - called «Galactic Cosmic Rays» probably come directly from the Sun's pulsar core, and were recorded as a gradient in cosmic ray exposures of meteorites at the birth of the solar system: iron meteorites > stone meteorites > carbonaceous chondrites