Planetary Impacts by Clustered Quark Matter Strangelets
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2013-10-23 v1 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We propose a model of clustered u-d-s quark matter that leads to stable bulk strange quark matter. We discuss qualitatively consequences of impacts by sub-planetary mass strangelets on rocky solar system bodies.
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@article{arxiv.1112.5765,
title = {Planetary Impacts by Clustered Quark Matter Strangelets},
author = {Lance Labun and Jan Rafelski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5765},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, SQM 2011 Proceedings