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Oct. 30, 2003

Feature Story

Spotlight: Missing Link Sought in Planetary Evolution

Posted byAaron Gronstal

Just as anthropologists sought “the missing link” between apes and humans, astronomers are embarking on a quest for a missing link in planetary evolution.