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A new model of the origin of asteroids suggests that in the beginning they weren’t rubble piles but “churning balls of mud.”

March 19, 2013 1:58 pm Robert Zimmerman

A new model of the origin of asteroids suggests that in the beginning they weren’t rubble piles but “churning balls of mud.”

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