This challenges our fundamental understanding of planet formation and increases our chances of finding other habitable planets in the Universe.
The research team was led by Prof. Martin Bizzarro from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen. The team comprised Prof. Martin Schiller and Ph.D. student Isaac Onyett from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen.
The team found that certain meteorites, called chondrites, the oldest and most primitive rocks in the solar system, had an excessive amount of a silicon isotope called μSi. In comparison, planets in the inner solar system, like Mars and Earth, had a deficit of this silicon isotope. Once the Earth was large enough, it acted like a vacuum cleaner, with its gravitational force rapidly pulling up all the dust, gas, and icy particles. "And that makes it grow to the size of Earth in just a few million years," explained Onyett in aSince the Earth vacuumed up icy particles along with other dust and gas, the water present on Earth today is a result of the planet's formation and not a chance event.
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