meteorite

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The early Earth's makeup can be explained mostly as a mix of known meteorite types.

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The researchers analyzed more than 400 samples, ranging from modern plants and animals to billion-year-old fossils and meteorites.

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The team concluded that the object responsible was a meteorite rather than a comet.

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"Our model ties together two things that didn't seem to fit before -- the isotopic fingerprints in meteorites, which come in two flavors, and the dynamics of planet formation," Srivastava explained.

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The researchers discovered that as water moves through these plants, it experiences such intense natural filtration that its oxygen isotope signatures become similar to those seen in meteorites or other extraterrestrial materials.

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