The pattern in this light acts as a kind of proxy for the history of star formation, and therefore a history of structure in the cosmos.

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"If more data confirm Eros is primordial, Eros will be a link between the chondrite meteorites found on Earth and the history of the solar system's formation, " McCoy said.

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But even a passing knowledge of American history would tell you how unusual a family formation the nuclear one is.

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The Spanish case shows how difficult it was for a young democracy to deal with terrorist activities perpetrated by the Basque separatist group, ETA. History clearly shows that no country in the process of state formation or nation building escapes violence.

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If the moon harbours ice, for example, measuring the amount of it at different depths could enable planetary scientists to work out the rate at which comets smashed into the lunar surface over its history, and that knowledge could then be plugged into models of the formation of the solar system.

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