Young Earth was sprinkled with precious metals physicsworld.com, Sept. 7, 2011 http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/47116
Where does all the gold come from? University of Bristol, Sept 7, 2011 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2011/7885.html Meteorites delivered Earth's gold, by Leila Battison BBC News, Sept 8, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14827624 The paper is: Willbold, M., T. Elliott, and S. Moorbath, 2011, The tungsten isotopic composition of the Earth’s mantle before the terminal bombardment. Nature. vol. 477, no. 7363, pp. 195-198. DOI: 10.1038/nature10399 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v477/n7363/full/nature10399.html A related paper is: Marty, B., and A. Meibom, 2007, Noble gas signature of the Late Heavy Bombardment in the Earth’s atmosphere. eEarth. vol. 2, pp. 43–49. PDF file at: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/33/07/83/PDF/ee-2-43-2007.pdf Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list