Planetessimals
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Planetessimals
Small bodies of rock and/or ice, formed by accretion in the solar nebula.
Asteroids
of less than 10 kilometres across are good examples of "left over" planetessimals.
Planets
were built from collisions and coalescence between planetessimals.
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