Pieces of stardust older than the solar system, organic matter from deep space, minerals forged near the Sun… Bennu just laid out its wild life story. Earth got itself a cosmic scrapbook. #Asteroids #SolarSystemHistory
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Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sun New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.

Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sun #Science #Space #Astronomy #PlanetaryScience #SolarSystemHistory #AstronomicalResearch

8/11 Could this be a cosmic fossil?

The megacomet might represent a primordial class of giant objects—the original large, icy bodies that formed in the early solar system before breaking apart into smaller comets.
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