NEWS: Luminary Lineage: Did an Ancient Supernova Trigger theSolarSystem's Birth?
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From: Yousuf Khan on 9 Jul 2010 01:47 On 7/9/2010 9:42 AM, Sam Wormley wrote: > On 7/8/10 7:28 PM, Brad Guth wrote: >> Your astrophysical forensics is contaminated by Sirius(B). >> >> ~ BG > > BTW, Brad, the isotope daughters from a supernova explosion and > shock wave are completely different than gasses puffed off by > the red giant stage of Sirius B. And let's not forget the temporal considerations, since the Sirius system is over 4 billion years younger than our system. So it's not likely that Sirius could've affected our system's birth cloud. :) Yousuf Khan |