Sentences with phrase «massive iron core»
Vesta, like Earth, has a complex internal structure, with a massive iron core and a mantle.
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It melted early on to form an iron core and rocky mantle and crust, spewed volcanic outpourings, and then suffered a massive impact.
Elements lighter than iron are built up in the cores of massive stars and released when they die.
Eventually, this iron core grows so massive that it is crushed by its own gravity, forming a black hole.
As a massive star ages, it accumulates iron in its core.
Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.
Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.
If a white dwarf is massive enough to fuse the iron in its core, those iron atoms are incredibly hot and densely packed, squashed together like sweaty clowns stuck in a circus car.