How metals were distributed in the early Solar System

Astronomers are investigating what our Solar System looked like at the beginning of its existence. Meteorites suggested that the solid materials in it were not distributed in the way scientists had previously thought. Meteorites tell the early history of the Solar System Four and a half billion years ago, our Solar System was a cloud of gas and dust that circled the star until it gathered into planets and asteroids. We can now judge it only from meteorites that have …