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The understanding of what we can observe nowadays needs the comprehension of the processes that contributed to shape our planet and the rest of the Solar System. The history of our Solar System began inside a great cold nebula of gas and dust (Safronov 1969). The more abundant elements were helium and hydrogen, and minor quantities of heavier elements were also present like carbon and silica and traces of more heavy elements like iron and nickel. Iron and nickel as all the other heavier elements were not part of the original elements of the cold cloud, and they were the consequence of the death of giant stars, synthesized in their interiors under extremely high pressures and temperatures and then disseminated into space after their final explosion, finally reaching the protoplanetary nebula.
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Di Martino, M., Flamini, E., Staffieri, S. (2019). Origin and Classification of Impacting Objects, and their Effects on the Earth Surface. In: Flamini, E., Di Martino, M., Coletta, A. (eds) Encyclopedic Atlas of Terrestrial Impact Craters. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05451-9_2
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