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NASA hopes 'snowman' space rock can reveal Earth's biggest secrets

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January 3, 2019

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One of the enduring mysteries of the cosmos has been how planets are formed out of little more than microscopic particles of dust.

Now scientists studying the most distant object ever visited by mankind say it might have provided the answer.

And it's down to what NASA described as a "space snowman".

Sky's science correspondent Thomas Moore explains.

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