| A number of astronomers at ASIAA have been working on different aspects of planetary science. At present our work focuses on research that helps us to better understand planet formation. Planets are believed to form in a circumstellar disk around a proto-Sun, an initial birth condition called the solar nebula. Although the disk has apparently disappeared now in the Solar System, the pristine solid materials have survived in the form of comets and asteroids for 4.6 billion years. Meteorites, the debris of these vagabonds falling onto the Earth, are used to study the early history of the solar nebula. |
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