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Solar systems early rocks looked like candy floss [1]

Planetary scientists claim to have discovered evidence that the earliest rocks in the solar system were fragile and akin to candy floss rather than the hard rock as people know today.

An international team, which included Curtin University, Imperial College London and Liverpool University, has provided the first geological evidence to support theories about how the earliest rocks were formed.

Publication Date: 
12/04/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi) [2]
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Science And Technology [3], Astronomy [4], London [5], Physical Science [6]
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