Tag: Meteor

The stress tolerated by IM1 before it disintegrated implies that it was tougher than iron meteorites in the solar system. This raises important questions: what was IM1’s melting temperature, thermal conductivity, material strength or electric conductivity? Given the measured over-...

Earth’s interior can be classified into crust-the continents, mantle-the magma below the continents and core-the solid rock in the Earth’s interior. Continents, by definition, are large masses of land on the crust separated by a fluid like water. With this defintion, Earth is the only...