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Space Rock Hints at Early Asteroid Furnace
By Erik Stokstad
After a decades-long search for what melted these large
asteroids, researchers report in tomorrow's issue of Science (20 May,
p.1348) that a once-molten 4.57-billion-year-old meteorite bears the
unmistakable signs of radioactive heat. Called Piplia Kalan after a
nearby village, the 42-kilogram meteorite seemed a prime hunting ground
for evidence of 26Al.
Full story here:
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/05201999/grapha.htm
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