Archived New study suggests Jupiters formation divided Solar System in two (arstechnica.com)
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Archived New study suggests Jupiters formation divided Solar System in two (arstechnica.com)
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'These suggest that the early Solar System was quickly divided in two, with the rapidly forming Jupiter creating the dividing line. '
'Molybdenum isotopes serve as a marker of the source material for our Solar System, determining what type of star contributed that material. '
'Thus, producing something like Jupiter involved a race to gather material before it was pushed out of the Solar System entirely. '
'Based on details of their composition, we already knew that meteorites formed from more than one pool of material in the early Solar System. '
'To explain this, the authors suggest that the Solar System was divided early in its history, creating two different reservoirs of material. '
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