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“I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.”
William S. Gilbert
“This means that certain iron meteorites may tell us what the precursor material for the primordial Earth was like. There's also the possibility that larger versions of this material may still be hiding among the asteroids. The hunt for them is on.”
William Bottke
“How did clay and carbonates form in frozen comets? We don't know, but their presence may imply that the primordial solar system was thoroughly mixed together, allowing material formed near the Sun where water is liquid, and frozen material from out by Uranus and Neptune, to be included in the same body.”
Carey Lisse
