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Small worlds with lava oceans could have given us meteorites

“Burning rain drops”. This is how Henry Clifton Sorby, a 19th century British mineralogist, described the small spheres called chondrules found within meteorites. Chondrules are such dominant characteristics of these meteorites that they are called chondrites, and they account for 86 percent of the meteorites found on Earth. Its origin, …

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