Dwarf Planet Vesta a Window to the Early Solar System

Andy Fell — October 06, 2021 - 4:30pm

The dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers involving scientists from the University of California, Davis, use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to resolve the “missing mantle problem” and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a couple of million years after it began to form. The papers were published in Nature Communications Sept. 14 and Nature Astronomy Sept. 30.

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Dwarf Planet Vesta a Window to the Early Solar System