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Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system

Science Daily · Jun 23, 2026, 5:09 AM

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A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from dramatically different materials than Earth and Mars, rewriting part of the solar system’s origin s

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