Tags: asteroids
Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing
"The asteroids missed out by not being in the right place to be absorbed into one of the growing balls of rock that became Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The benefit for the asteroids that escaped being gobbled up by a greedy planet is that their evolution was all but stopped just after their formation, meaning they preserve key information about an important phase of Solar System formation."
Natalie Starkey
Starkey, N. (2018). Catching Stardust. Comets, asteroids and the birth of the solar system. Bloomsbury Sigma.
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