22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
...of a particular chemical element which has the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons in each atom. Molybdenum does not occur naturally as a free metal on Earth because it is prone to losing its electrons; instead it readily forms...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...natural resource contents. An asteroid with 70 per cent Nickel and Molybdenum content and 50 m in diameter would have something like a ... on current market prices of US$13,000 a tonne for Molybdenum and US$10,000 a tonne for Nickel. This much lower...
27 August 2018
Meteorites give clues as to how Jupiter was built
... three stages it took Jupiter to reach its colossal size. The analysis was aided by recent studies on isotopes of molybdenum, tungsten and platinum found in meteorites, which have inferred the existence of two reservoirs of small bodies in our...
13 January 2020
New study shows a split Solar System that kickstarted growth of Jupiter
... heating since they were formed. These types of meteorite are enriched with titanium, chromium and molybdenum, whereas non-carbonaceous meteorites are not. Researchers refer to these differences in isotopic composition as the NC–CC dichotomy...
