{"id":201382,"date":"2024-12-12T11:43:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/primitive-meteorites-formed-in-less-turbulent-solar-nebula-researchers-suggest"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T17:43:05","slug":"primitive-meteorites-formed-in-less-turbulent-solar-nebula-researchers-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/primitive-meteorites-formed-in-less-turbulent-solar-nebula-researchers-suggest","title":{"rendered":"Primitive meteorites formed in less turbulent solar nebula, researchers suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/primitive-meteorites-formed-in-less-turbulent-solar-nebula-researchers-suggest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore, their primitive composition means that they offer a window into the origins of planet formation, particularly as their major elements (heavier than hydrogen and helium, including oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron and nickel) closely reflect the sun\u2019s photosphere composition.<\/p>\n<p>Melting and clumped accumulation (accretion) of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dust+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dust particles<\/a> at high temperatures (up to 2,000 Kelvin [~1,727 \u00b0C]) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protoplanetary+disk\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protoplanetary disk<\/a> formed crystallized silicate spheres known as chondrules, which further joined together to produce asteroids, the remnants of planetary genesis.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main types, believed to have formed in the inner and outer solar system respectively: ordinary chondrites are composed of up to 90% chondrules, while carbonaceous chondrites have only 20\u201350% chondrules within a background matrix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore, their primitive composition means that they offer a window into the origins of planet formation, particularly as their major elements (heavier than hydrogen and helium, including oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron and nickel) closely reflect the sun\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}