Such salts could easily have been incorporated as impurities when matter accreted
during the planetary formation process and be present in rocks or liquid water with which the core ice interacts.
Not exact matches
This supports the idea that a young
planetary system can inherit the chemical composition of its parent star - forming cloud and opens up the possibility that organohalogens could arrive on planets in young systems
during planet
formation or via comet impacts.
The belt contains essential information about the
planetary formation processes, including both the «cold disk» that harbors the objects that are thought to formed in situ with the whole
planetary system, and the «hot / scattered disk» that is the refuge of objects that are dynamically scattered into it
during the dynamical evolution of the inner solar system.
This new finding is important because it's one of the first exoplanets in this mass range that lies beyond the «snow line» — the distance
during formation of a
planetary system beyond which ice can form from water, ammonia, and methane.
Its detection helps astronomers understand the chemical processes that occur
during the
formation of
planetary systems and that ultimately lead to the creation of the ingredients for life.