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The origin of oddball meteorites discovered by scientists


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X-ray experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) played a key role in resolving the origin of rare, odd meteorites that have puzzled scientists since their discovery a half-century ago.

Known as type IIE iron meteorites, they appear to have originated from a parent body that had a composition featuring both fully melted and unmelted parts – other meteorite types display only one composition.

The magnetization pockets pointed to their likely origin in a large “planetesimal” – an object that took shape during the formative stage of our solar system – that indeed was both unmelted and melted. The object likely had a molten metallic core, a solid crust, and a magnetic field that may have rivaled the Earth’s in strength. 

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Source: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/07/scientists-contribute-to-study-exploring-magnetization-preserved-for-billions-of-years-in-meteorite-samples/134451

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