Stories by Alan E. Rubin

What the Oldest Meteorites Say about the Early Solar System

Microscopic analyses of chondrites, the oldest rocks in the solar system, are filling in details of what our neighborhood in space was like shortly before the planets formed

January 23, 2013 — Alan E. Rubin

Space & Physics

What Heated the Asteroids?

Collisions among asteroids in the early history of the solar system may help explain why many of these rocky bodies reached high temperatures

April 25, 2005 — Alan E. Rubin