[meteorite-list] Earth's Gold Came from Colliding Dead Stars

[Paul H.]

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.