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.
Not exact matches
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.