Researchers have proposed a radical solution to a cosmochemical mystery that has baffled scientists for over a century: how numerous small, glassy chondrules had become embedded within chondrites, the largest class of meteorites. Chondrules are visible as round objects in this electron image of a polished thin section made from the Bishunpur meteorite from India; the dark grains are iron-poor olivine crystals (Steven Simon) First described in 1877...
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