[meteorite-list] Where all the iron and nickle came from...?

Darren Garrison cynapse at charter.net
Fri Sep 18 12:44:49 EDT 2009


On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:05:50 -0700, you wrote:

>
>Hello list, 
>These metallic elements are so common in stony meteorites - as we know... now, don't they originally form at the cores of stars, and the traces of these metals that contained during the earliest days of the formation of our Solar System, are the remnants of nearby dead stars that exploded millions or billions of years before the Solar System started to emerge? 
>

Everything heavier than hydrogen, helium (and a little bit of Lithium and
Beryllium) was cooked up in stars.



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