Sentences with phrase «with chondrules»

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The vast majority are chondrites, pieces of asteroids filled with little glassy beads called chondrules.

In fact, the researchers found that chondrules were most likely created by the collision of such moon - sized planetary embryos: These bodies smashed together with such violent force that they melted a fraction of their material, and shot a molten plume out into the solar nebula.

During the simulations, it was found that the planetary bodies would have to strike each other at a rate of 2.5 km (1.6 miles) per second to produce an impact plume with molten droplets that would cool at the correct rate to create chondrules with the characteristics we observe today.