Deep Impact. Oliver Morton.
by Morton, Oliver; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 43Science. Publisher: Wired, 2003ISSN: 1522-3264;.Subject(s): Astrophysics | Collisions (Physics) | Dark matter (Astronomy) | Earth | Moon | Neutrinos | Quarks | Seismometry | Strange particlesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "It's remarkable that some strange guest should sweep through Earth like a hot wire through wax, and that no one would notice as it did so. But though the visitor was very fast and fairly heavy, it was also extremely small: a mass of as much as 10 tons squeezed into something about the size of a red blood cell." (WIRED) This article explains how two scientists studied seismological tapes to find tiny but high-mass particles, called quark nuggets, which pass from space through the Earth.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Deep Impact, Feb. 2003; pp. 124-129.
"It's remarkable that some strange guest should sweep through Earth like a hot wire through wax, and that no one would notice as it did so. But though the visitor was very fast and fairly heavy, it was also extremely small: a mass of as much as 10 tons squeezed into something about the size of a red blood cell." (WIRED) This article explains how two scientists studied seismological tapes to find tiny but high-mass particles, called quark nuggets, which pass from space through the Earth.
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