Chondrules: Suggestion Concerning the Origin
- 1 July 1966
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 153 (3731), 54-56
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.153.3731.54
Abstract
The millimeter-sized, sometimes glassy spheroids called chondrules that occur abundantly in stony meteorites may have been produced by lightning in the primitive Laplaciantype nebula while earthy materials were condensing and collecting to form the asteroids and the terrestrial planets.Keywords
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