Journey to the Birth of the Solar System

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Each meteorite plucked off the ground, every moon rock collected by Apollo astronauts and every measurement recorded by NASA’s far-flung probes has given planetary scientists important clues and insights into how our solar system formed and evolved. Join physicist David Kaplan on Quanta Magazine's tour showing how the sun, the Earth and the other planets came to be.