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Do any of the other planets have traces of gold, silver, or platinum?

Gold, Silver, and Platinum were created from supernova explosions. The earth has Gold, Silver, and Platinum along with an iron core. If the other planets were created from the same stellar matter as the earth, is it reasonable to expect traces of Gold, Silver, and Platinum. If no traces or heavier metals can be discovered, does this imply that earth was created from different stellar matter than the other planets in its origin?
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hubber2009 hubber2009
 
 August 27, 2009 02:53 PM
The chances of single pure element (other than hydrogen) gathering together into a ball is so small as to be absurd..

There are no pure carbon, gold or silver planets..



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videopia videopia
 
August 30, 2009 08:58 PM
Yes.

There is no reason to think the earth was created in some magical process that was different from anything else in our solar system.

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davepamn davepamn
 
August 30, 2009 09:28 PM
Prove your claim of heavy metals on other planets.

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videopia videopia
 
August 30, 2009 11:24 PM
How could there not be heavy elements in other planets? You need some mechanism for metals to magically be restricted to earth and I can't think of one.

Some asteroids have huge amounts of nickle and iron in them: heavy enough?

Now is there silver, gold or platinum to mine? I have no idea. Certainly you couldn't get to the metals in the gas planets, but the cores certainly have traces of these metals, probably in exactly the same proportions as the earth and everything else in the solar system.

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davepamn davepamn
 
August 31, 2009 03:25 PM
Are you suggesting the the Earth was a large iron asteroid that fell into the orbit around the sun? That seems impossible.

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videopia videopia
 
August 31, 2009 04:09 PM
What? No. Solar nebula, got a bunch of stuff in it including gold, platinum, silver, uranium etc. Earth formed from that nebula. Jupiter formed from that nebula. The asteroids formed from that nebula. You are overthinking these questions without understanding the basics.

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davepamn davepamn
 
August 31, 2009 05:25 PM
Are saying that a magnetic fluctuation in the nebulae formed and all the iron migrated towards the magnetic field and the iron core formed? And this was the same Nebulae that formed the sun? What was the initial magnetic material that caused the iron to form?

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videopia videopia
 
August 31, 2009 05:29 PM
No.

I'm saying heavier stuff goes to the middle. I don't know anything at all about magnetic fields in the solar nebula.

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