article_snippet.sent: Whatever caused small space rocks to lump together billions of years ago, magnetism is unlikely to be the reason.
article_snippet.sent: Some astrophysicists have suggested that magnetism might have been responsible for aligning and then binding together rocks into larger boulders during the early stages of planet formation.
article_snippet.sent: Solar System was once nothing more than a swirling disc of gas and dust but, within a few million years, the Sun burst into life in the centre of this turbulent disc, with the leftover material going into forming the asteroids, comets, moons and planets.
article_snippet.sent: This leads scientists to believe that magnetic fields threading through the proto-planetary disc could have played an important role in moving material around as it started to clump together to form larger bodies. '
article_snippet.sent: Some astrophysicists have suggested that magnetism might have been responsible for aligning and then binding together rocks into larger boulders during the early stages of planet formation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Was thought magnetism was responsible for aligning and binding rocks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: This could have led to  early stages of planet formation, scientists said .
  