The finding fits theories that planets and other bodies in the solar system were built in waves as a mixture of fine dust, ice, organic matter and specks of stardust circling the newborn sun clumped together into ever larger objects.
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Jacek Krywko,
Scientific American,
12 Nov. 2026
Their ordinary matter — their gas and dust — swirled about and got clumped up.
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