4.6 billion years old meteorite reveals how our early solar system was built
A recent study on a 4.6 billion years old meteorite Acfer 049 finds the building blocks of our reveal system. The meteorite from the space landed in the Sahara deserts of Algeria in 1990. The recent studies on it published in November month's Science Advances journal pave the wave for scientists to investigate the earlier days of our solar system.
Epifanio Vaccaro is the author of the published study and curator of Petrology at London's Natural History Museum. He says that the matrix, which is fine-grained material holding everything in the meteorite together, is the starting material from which all the planets of our solar system are formed. Though Acfer 049 landed in Algeria in 1990, it took almost thirty years for researchers to have the right technology to peer through the fine grains. The researchers used high spatial resolution microscopes that allowed them to see the fossils or the tiny ice pockets finally. Epifanio said that based on the microscopic findings, a new model was formed to demonstrate the formation of our solar system, concluded Epifanio.