Timeline for How many times has the matter in our Solar System been recycled from previous stars?
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| Feb 18, 2019 at 5:13 | history | edited | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 23:40 | comment | added | ProfRob | Yes, it is a more subtle question and varies a lot from element to element I think. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 18:34 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | @Rob, I think we may be answering different question. Your "the Sun is the product of the ∼ billion stars" answers how many stars have contributed mass to what is not the sun (and I'm sure you're right). The question I gave a lower limit to is more along the lines of "What is the average number of stars that a nucleon current in the sun has been in before?" (and I've ignored the deep philosophical difficulty of tracking the identity of a nucleon through nuclear transformations, too, but the OP didn't seem ready for that). | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 9:30 | comment | added | ProfRob | I think this is a vast underestimate because it ignores that mixing takes place in the ISM on timescales that are short compared with the lifetime of the Galaxy. Many, if not most, of the $\sim 10^9$ massive stars that were born billions of years before the Sun in our Galaxy have contributed nuclei to the solar system. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 17:13 | vote | accept | Clinton Pierce | ||
| Feb 8, 2011 at 20:38 | vote | accept | Clinton Pierce | ||
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| Jan 24, 2011 at 18:23 | comment | added | Clinton Pierce | This is the track that I was trying to go down, and you and Luboš are starting to shed some light on it. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 18:10 | history | edited | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 24, 2011 at 18:01 | history | answered | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 2.5 |