Giant Mud Balls Roamed the Early Solar System 07AUG2017

 Giant Mud Balls Roamed the Early Solar System

Giant mud balls roamed the early solar system
Rethinking early asteroids’ rockiness could solv
some meteorite mysteries. By Lisa Grossman
Science News, August 4, 2017
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/giant-mud-balls-roamed-early-solar-system

Early solar system may have slung giant mud balls.
The first asteroids may not have been so rocky,
explaining some meteorite mysteries. By Lisa Grossman
Science News for Students, August 4, 2017
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/early-solar-system-may-have-slung-giant-mud-balls

The paper is:

Bland, P.A., and B.J. Travis. 2017. Giant convecting
mud balls of the early solar system. Science Advances.
Published online July 14, 2017. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602514.
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1602514

Also, there is:

The solar system's earliest asteroids may have all
been massive. A new analysis offers new clues to
how planetary building blocks form
By Maria Temming, August 3, 2017

The paper is:

Delbo, M., K. Walsh, B. Bolin, C. Avdellidou, and,
A. Morbidelli. 2017. Identification of a primordial
asteroid family constrains the original planetesimals
population. Science. Published online August 3, 2017.
doi: 10.1126/science.aam6036.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/08/02/science.aam6036

Yours,

Paul H.