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

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:44:49 -0500
Message-ID: <87e7b5lbnonolf48ama95echcv6akokmq0_at_4ax.com>

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.
Received on Fri 18 Sep 2009 12:44:49 PM PDT