A Single Cosmic Collision May Have Given Us Most Of Our Precious Metals
treasured metals like gold and atomic number 78 would be even rarer had it not been for a undivided collision between Earth and a prominent trunk 4.45 billion years ago , a new paper claim . The theory would have major implication for Earth ’s early history , the formation of other jolting planets within the Solar System , and even for the authorship of Earth - alike planet around other stars ....