Artist’s impression of the Earth’s formation - from chondritic asteroids on the left, and from planetesimals on the right.
Artist's impression of the Earth's formation - from chondritic asteroids on the left, and from planetesimals on the right. An international research team led by ETH Zurich proposes a new theory for the Earth's formation. It may also show how other rocky planets were formed. Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions have still to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of our planet, about whose beginnings researchers are still unclear. An international research team led by ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS is now proposing a new answer to this question based on laboratory experiments and computer simulations. The researchers have published their study in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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