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What I Didn't Know Before I Started Studying Meteorites

Asteroids in the asteroid belt are often depicted as these dead worlds that don't really have much to tell us, not really much going on there. The meteorites that originate from the asteroids tell us a great deal about those worlds. For example, we found evidence that on some asteroids there were volcanoes in the first few million years of the solar system's history. And so by studying the meteorites we've really turned these asteroids from dead world into worlds in their own right with geological histories.

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