https://oiger.de/2026/06/19/erde-ist-vor-ueber-100-millionen-jahren-an-kosmische-katastrophe-vorbeigeschrammt/197933
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Plutonium in Earth Rocks Signals Long-ago Cosmic Collision
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"A small lump of rock pulled up from the Pacific Ocean seafloor in 1976 is giving scientists new clues about an ancient cosmic event. More than a hundred million years ago, two neutron stars collided. .."
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/plutonium-in-earth-rocks-signals-long-ago-cosmic-collision
18.6.2026
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#Mangankruste #Plutonium244 #Pu244 #rProzess #Supernova #Tiefsee #Universum

A small lump of rock pulled up from the Pacific Ocean seafloor in 1976 is giving scientists new clues about an ancient cosmic event. More than a hundred million years ago, two neutron stars collided. The resulting energetic kilonova sent a rain of long-lived elements, such as isotopes of plutonium, through space. Eventually, this stellar
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Kosmische Zeitzeugen
Radionuklide in Tiefseeprobe deuten auf uraltes kosmisches Ereignis hin
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".. in einer Mangankruste aus der Tiefsee seltene radioaktive Isotope nachgewiesen und damit neue Einblicke in die Entstehung der schwersten Elemente im Universum gewonnen .."
https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=99&pOid=77856
15.6.2026
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An international research team has identified rare radioactive isotopes in a manganese crust from the deep sea, gaining new insights into the formation of the heaviest elements in the universe. Their results show that the last major astrophysical event in the vicinity of our solar system that could have generated such elements happened at least 100 million years ago. Published in the journal Nature Astronomy (DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02841-6), this international study was led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR).