[meteorite-list] Lasers Used to Simulate Giant Extraterrestrial Impacts

From: Paul <etchplain_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 20:56:25 -0500
Message-ID: <608f0ad1-f9dc-222c-765b-06a95c6b56c9_at_att.net>

Lasers melt rocks to reveal development of super-Earths
and how giant impacts make magma, Hiroshima University
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3722097/Rock-melting-lasers-reveal-Earth-like-planets-magma-form.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160803143117.htm
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-lasers-reveal-super-earths-giant-impacts.html

The paper is:

Sekine T., Ozaki N., Miyanishi K., Asaumi Y., Kimura T.,
Albertazzi, Y. S., Sakawa, Y., Sano, T., Sugita, S., Matsui,
T., and Kodama, R., 2016, Shock compression response
of forsterite above 250 GPa Science Advances.
Vol. 2, no. 8, e1600157 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600157
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/8/e1600157

Yours,

Paul H.
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2016 09:56:25 PM PDT