Supernova Shrapnel Found In Meteorite

coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."

Re:The wonders of science...

[Anonymous Coward]

I had no idea how much I as a white man respected Malcolm X until I learned that he wanted all the niggers to go back to Africa. What a capital idea! Why don't we have more black leaders who feel that way? Besides, it'd be a boon for the airline industry.

What a completely rational response. Hey nigger, don't like it here? Think The Man is draggin' you down? Go the fuck back to Africa.

If my great, great great grandpappy only knew that things would turn out this way, he'd have picked his own damn cotton.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."

You know, editors, that sentence would be a lot more readable if it were phrased: "Scientists this week said they found, embedded in a meteorite, microscopic shrapnel from a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago"

I had to do a double-take because of "meteorite of a star they say exploded". I didn't know stars had meteorites!

Re:Which Supernova?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm no expert, but I think the question "which supernova this comes from?" is pointless. 4.5 billion years has passed and the remains of this supernova are probably all around half the galaxy. And they are now in form of other stars or planets, or gas clouds in interstellar space. Chances are, it is already mixed with other matter present and the only intact pieces of it are in the form of such grains.