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Letter: For the record

Published 21 June 2017

• In Rebecca Boyle's article on how an impact could have reshaped the early Earth as a doughnut-like “synestia”, we should have said that its outer edges reach orbital velocity and cannot spin any faster (3 June, p 10).

Issue no. 3131 published 24 June 2017

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