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Anthropic selection of a Solar System with a high 26Al/27Al ratio: Implications and a possible mechanism

✍ Scribed by J.D. Gilmour; C.A. Middleton


Book ID
103830527
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
147 KB
Volume
201
Category
Article
ISSN
0019-1035

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✦ Synopsis


Since our technological civilisation depends on our planet's properties, anthropic selection can explain the close match between the high 26 Al/ 27 Al ratios in the earliest Solar System solids, which are difficult to produce in models of starformation, and the limiting value required to cause (the widely observed) thermal processing of planetesimals. We suggest that volatile loss on heating of planetesimals favours future development of technological civilisations in Solar Systems with elevated concentrations of 26 Al.


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