This foil doesn't do very well in the air, but it protected it from meteorites and from the ultraviolet radiations from the sun. |
From the crusts of differentiated asteroids and planets come the meteorites we call achondrites. |
Sources of other specific meteorites remain unproven, although another set of eight achondrites are suspected to have come from Mars. |
Silicon has also been detected in the Sun and stars and is found in certain types of meteorites known as aerolites. |
Unique samples of moon rock and meteorites as old as the solar system landed on a Bickley girls' school. |
Late-forming chondrules in meteorites are thus the last souvenirs of the process that formed our planetary system. |