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Thursday 18 July 2013

Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars

Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars

Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars
Science Daily, July 17, 2013
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130717134921.htm

Berger, E., W. Fong, and R. Chornock. Smoking
Gun or Smoldering Embers? A Possible r-process
Kilonova Associated with the Short-Hard GRB
130603B. The Astrophysical Journal Letters,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3960

Also, there is:

In Quest of the Cosmic Origins of Silver: Silver
and Gold Materialized in Different Stellar
Explosions, Science Daily, Sep. 6, 2012)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906074025.htm

Hansen, C. J., F. Primas, H. Hartman, K.-L. Kratz,
S. Wanajo, B. Leibundgut, K. Farouqi, O.
Hallmann, N. Christlieb, H. Nilsson. Silver and
palladium help unveil the nature of a second
r-process. Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 545,
A31 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118643

Yours,

Paul H.