'Our surprising result suggests the existence of a large, water-rich parent body.'
"Our surprising result suggests the existence of a large, water-rich parent body."Lost World
After studying one of the fragments of an asteroid that exploded over Sudan, a team of scientists arrived at a provocative conclusion. The researchers suggest that at least one giant space rock, the size of a dwarf planet, orbited the Sun during the earliest days of our solar system. Inside of the tiny asteroid splinter allocated to the study, they found an unusual crystal structure that couldn't have formed inside a typical asteroid,. All in all, it's more evidence for a solar system in which the composition has changed immensely since its birth four and a half billion years ago.
But the fact that it seems to have once existed suggests that could have once been a much wider variety of objects in our solar system than scientists now believe.
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