Atomic explosions inside planets
Creators
- 1. Jawaharlal Nehru Univ., New Delhi (India). School of Environmental Sciences
Description
There is evidence of one or more fission explosions inside planets. Under gravitational differentiation, heavy elements settle towards the centre. Uranium forms together with some other heavy elements (over and above what is left in solution in iron etc.) an innermost core. With time an explosive layer of few cms thickness separtes from the bulk uranium since 235U is slightly less heavy. The explosion may also use other fissile elements formed from the fertile elements 235U and 232Th since these are in close proximity to the uranium reactor having about 33 per cent 235U about 5 billion years ago when the planets were put together. The relics of such explosions are the expelled satellites including the Moon and the rings of Saturn etc. The rings are formed when the expelled material stays within the Roche limit. The Moon is formed around a scab of earth's crust which is also clear from its eccentric mass distribution. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Part A
- Journal Volume
- 55
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Proc. Indian Natl. Sci. Acad., Part A.
- Journal Page Range
- 630-633
- ISSN
- 0370-0046
- CODEN
- PIPSB
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- India
- INIS RN
- 21051189
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- EARTH CORE; EARTH CRUST; FISSION PRODUCTS; GRAVITATION; HELIUM 3; HELIUM 4; MOON; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; ORIGIN; PLANETS; THORIUM 232; URANIUM 235; URANIUM 238
- Descriptors DEC
- ACTINIDE NUCLEI; ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; EXPLOSIONS; HEAVY NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTO; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MATERIALS; MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOISOTOPES; SATELLITES; SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTO; STABLE ISOTOPES; THORIUM ISOTOPES; URANIUM ISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES