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• These geochemical signatures can be compared with what are called "chondritic" meteorites: primitive meteorites that have fallen to Earth in modern times, but have never...
• Until recently, researchers generally thought that the Earth and the other planets of the solar system were chondritic, meaning that the mantle's chemistry was thought...
• The problem is that all those bits of iron, and loose chondritic regolith that are attracted to the magnetic field will pull loose from the asteroid and clump to the magnet.
• The basis many geologists use for dating the Earth rests on the assumption that chondritic meteorites are very representative of a “bulk Earth composition”, the...