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Old 16-July-2004, 01:23 AM
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There's a brief paper in arXive that discusses an experiment that suggests that the early solar system chondrules were melted by a jet from a GRB about 300 light years from us. The paper does not claim this is the only way it could have happened, but it tells a pretty good story.

Gamma-ray bursts and X-ray melting of material to form chondrules and planets
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