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  • Hypatia Stone Lives up to Its Name

    From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 31 06:56:14 2022
    A meteorite found in Egypt in 1996, and named after the librarian at the Library of Alexandria who was murdered by a mob...

    has been studied in detail, and the anomalous isotopic concentrations found in it indicate that it isn't merely a meteorite, but not only is it extrasolar...

    it comes from even further away, as it appears to have been formed in a Type Ia supernova.

    John Savard

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Quadibloc on Tue May 31 06:57:51 2022
    On Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at 7:56:16 AM UTC-6, Quadibloc wrote:
    A meteorite found in Egypt in 1996, and named after the librarian at the Library of Alexandria who was murdered by a mob...

    has been studied in detail, and the anomalous isotopic concentrations found in it indicate that it isn't merely a meteorite, but not only is it extrasolar...

    it comes from even further away, as it appears to have been formed in a Type Ia supernova.

    And here's a link that isn't paywalled...

    https://www.livescience.com/space-rock-has-supernova-traces

    John Savard

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue May 31 08:52:06 2022
    On Tue, 31 May 2022 06:56:14 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    A meteorite found in Egypt in 1996, and named after the librarian at the Library of Alexandria who was murdered by a mob...

    has been studied in detail, and the anomalous isotopic concentrations found in it indicate that it isn't merely a meteorite, but not only is it extrasolar...

    it comes from even further away, as it appears to have been formed in a Type Ia supernova.

    It isn't "extrasolar" by the conventional use of the word. It formed
    with our solar system, like all the other stony bodies that orbit the
    Sun.

    It is only extrasolar in the sense that all of the raw materials of
    the Solar System are... obviously!

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