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cosmochemistry [¦käz·mō¦kem·ə·strē] (astrophysics) The science of the chemistry of the universe, particularly that beyond earth, concerned primarily with inferences on pre-solar-system events, solar nebular processes, and early planetary processes as deduced from minerals in meteorites and from chemical and isotopic compositions of meteorites and their parts. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This [water] is the first real sample of the solar nebula gas, the gas from which all the planets formed," comments cosmochemist Robert N. Since comets are thought to have developed before the sun and planets, scientists study micrometeorite composition as a representative of the primordial matter that eventually coalesced into the solar system, says Ian Mackinnon, a cosmochemist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. |
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