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Science 22 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5794, pp. 1743 - 1744
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133137
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Meteorites and Their Parent Asteroids

Robert N. Clayton

Bodies in our solar system have different oxygen isotope signatures, which have now been used to clarify that a collision involving the asteroid Vesta led to two major groups of meteorites.

The author is at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: r-clayton{at}uchicago.edu

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