The peculiar carbon isotopic compositions of carbonates in the Tagish Lake meteorite suggest that D-type asteroids accreted in the outer part of the protoplanetary disk — beyond 10 au — before being dispersed sunwards to the main asteroid belt.
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Marrocchi, Y., Piani, L. The tumultuous childhood of the Solar System. Nat Astron 3, 889–890 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0868-y
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