Last Updated: US Scientists Roast Meteorites In Lab To Recreate Formation Of Planets A team of scientists at the University of California, US, are roasting meteorites in a lab in a bid to try and recreate the birth of planets. Image: Pixabay A team of scientists at the University of California, US, are roasting meteorites in a lab in a bid to try and recreate the birth of planets. Meteorites are often referred to as what was “left over” from the building blocks of our solar system after the Big Bang, which was the explosion that brought the universe into existence. Now, to seek answers regarding the formation of the planet, the scientists said that they are trying to simulate in the laboratory this very early process when a planet’s atmosphere is forming so they can put some experimental constraints on that story.