A new study suggests Earth's supply of phosphorus and nitrogen came largely from the inner solar system, challenging longstanding ideas about the origin of these life-essential elements In the earliest stages, this gas and dust clumped together into bodies called planetesimals. Through collisions and fragmentation, some of these objects eventually became the planets we know today, while others survived as asteroids, and – when they ... [2131 chars]
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