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How to make a chondrule

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Chondrules, the stony, seed-like grains in meteorites, were formed when some event melted rock in the solar nebula. The latest analyses narrow the possible ‘when’, ‘where’ and ‘how’ of that process.

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Desch, S. How to make a chondrule. Nature 441, 416–417 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441416a

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