Vaguely analogous to grains of green Hawaiian beach sand, chondrules are arguably the glue needed to make planets like ours.

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For 96 miles we wended our way through rolling hills covered with kelly-green acacia, finally arriving at Monkey Mia, a strip of white-sand beach where bottle-nosed dolphins come every morning to beg for fish.

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