Thursday, November 04, 2004

Stardust Found

Scientists from the Technical University of Munich in Germany have found a layer of an extremely rare isotope of iron on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and have concluded that it came from a supernova about 2.8 million years ago. The isotope, iron-60, was found 15,750 feet below the ocean surface. Having a decay rate or half-life of about 1.5 million years, it's easy to calculate the date of the supernova event.

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