Meteorites provide
clues about some of the violent events that took place in the early solar system.
A great demolition derby
with a chaotic mess of asteroids and forming planets constantly slamming into each other
It took place in the
early solar system between 7.8 million and 11.7 million years after the sun formed,
An international team of
researchers analyzed 18 iron meteorites found on Earth to better understand the evolution of their parent bodies
Palladium 107
undergoes radioactive decay into silver 107 with a half-life of 6.5 million years.
Early solar system was
extremely chaotic, planets would not have even finished forming, and asteroids and protoplanets would have been colliding frequently