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- Nearby asteroid may contain elements 'beyond the periodic table', new study suggests
by Sharmila Kuthunur published 4 days ago
Posted on 10/26/2023 6:51:39 PM PDT by MattMusson
Blows my mind how they are able to predict this by a rock that that passes by a planet a few million miles away...
Would a misplaced decimal point change the composition of the asteroid?
What about the elements between oganesson (118) and 164?
I'm a little skeptical that this "discovery" is not a move by NASA to ensure continued funding in an era where we need to cut back drastically.
Does it weigh more than Jerry Nadler?
Your headline does not match the article headline. (Don’t let the mods catch ya!)
heavier =/= denser
Three tons of feathers are three times heavier than one ton of lead...
The hypothetical half-life would be milliseconds to nanoseconds, I presume.
[snip] A team of physicists believes it has found in mica specimens from Africa one and possibly more of the long‐sought superheavy elements.
The discovery would be No. 126 in the periodic table of elements, which tabulates the elements in terms of increasing weight so that they fall into columns with common properties. The experiments also suggested the existence of elements 116, 124 and 127. which would be further additions to the table.
The heaviest element that occurs naturally in more than trace amounts is uranium, No. 92 in the table. Elements heavier than uranium, up to No. 106, have been created in the laboratory but most of them, apart from plutonium, No. 94 survive only a fraction of a second. [/snip]Superheavy Element Is Believed Found
Walter Sullivan P | June 18, 1976 | New York Times Archives
A new source of material for bullets! Let’s go get it!
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