Solar wind flowing over asteroids in the early solar system (IMAGE)

University of Rochester

Solar wind flowing over asteroids in the early solar system

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Illustration of solar wind flowing over asteroids in the early solar system. The magnetic field of the solar wind (white line/arrows) magnetizes the asteroid (red arrow). Researchers at the University of Rochester used magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids first arrived in the inner solar system.

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University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw

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