News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Ceres' Deepening Mysteries. Parent comment

Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by ridgeguy on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:27AM (#9136377)
Not far-fetched at all. There's precedent right here on our home planet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by InclinedPlane on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @06:40AM (#9137165)
Ceres is as old as Earth, so its Uranium should be as lowly enriched in U-235 as here, which is today too low for natural reactions. Additionally it would be highly unusual for Ceres to have concentrated Uranium ore deposits to a similar degree as Earth, for mineralogical reasons.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by ars on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:14AM (#9136487)
You need water for this to work. Is there water on ceres?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Ceres' Deepening Mysteries by jboggan on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:00AM (#9136751)
Quite possibly: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/there-life-ceres-dwarf-...
[ Parent | on HN ]