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Specks of stardust

By Brandie Jefferson

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Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta. Researchers wonder: Could they have delivered water to the early Earth?

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Specks of stardust

Specks of stardust

in the news:

WashU team to lead the search for planets orbiting white dwarfs with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope

WashU astronomers selected for four NASA Roman Cycle 1 programs

Tectonic movements are instrumental in rocky coastal erosion

A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock