Sentences with phrase «form chondrules»

Residual droplets would eventually cool to form chondrules, which in turn attached to larger bodies — some of which would eventually impact Earth, to be preserved as meteorites.

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These so - called chondrules were formed during short - duration flash - heating events in the solar nebula.
They found that bodies the size of the moon formed relatively quickly, within the first 10,000 years, before chondrules were thought to have appeared.
Chondrules are formed where molten droplets cool, leaving behind a glassy residue.
u «CAIs [calcium - aluminum - rich inclusions] are believed to have formed about two million years before the chondrules.
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