How Space Rocks Reveal the Early Solar System's Secret: Separating Rock from Ice Rich Dust The study of iron meteorites has provided a crucial piece of information about how our solar system formed.
Researchers have long been fascinated by the differences between planetesimals, those early building blocks of planets that formed from the solar nebula, and the meteorites we find on Earth today.
Iron meteorites have revealed that aerodynamic effects played a significant role in separating rocky chondrules from ice rich dust in the early solar system.