What Were The Chemical And Physical Conditions Like In The Early Solar System

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Studying the chemistry of meteorites can help answer fundamental questions about the Solar System such as:
• How old is the Solar System?
• What sort of materials did the Solar System form from?
• What were the chemical and physical conditions like in the early Solar System?
• How do asteroids and planets form and evolve?

Apart from these, meteorites also hold the clues to the numerous processes leading to the formation of the Solar System, such as:
• Condensation sequence of the solar nebula
• Fractionation of refractory elements
• Metal-silicate fractionation
• Temperature and pressure in the solar nebula
• Oxidation states of primordial matter
• Chronology of the solar nebula
• Accretion of the planets
Meteorites derive from asteroids and,