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Science 1 July 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3731, pp. 54 - 56
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3731.54
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Chondrules: Suggestion Concerning the Origin

Fred L. Whipple 1

1 Smithsonian Institution, Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The millimeter-sized, sometimes glassy spheroids called chondrules that occur abundantly in stony meteorites may have been produced by lightning in the primitive Laplaciantype nebula while earthy materials were condensing and collecting to form the asteroids and the terrestrial planets.


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