Earth ate a Mercury-like body early in its history, study finds

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 17:30 in Physics & Chemistry

A Mercury-like body smashed into a young Earth and gave our planet’s core the radioactive elements necessary to generate a magnetic field, a pair of Oxford geochemists say.

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