Sentences with phrase «which planetary building blocks»

This finding was expected because meteorites from Vesta have less iron than the solar nebula from which planetary building blocks formed.

Not exact matches

Then, the team used a computer program to test different compositions of basic planetary building blocks to determine which makeups would yield planets with those densities.

Planets have churned and reprocessed that original material, but the unused bits became asteroids and comets, which are essentially pristine planetary building blocks.