Planetary Impacts by Clustered Quark Matter Strangelets
Lance Labun, Jan Rafelski
TL;DR
This paper introduces a model of clustered quark matter that suggests stable strange quark matter could impact solar system bodies, with potential observable consequences.
Contribution
It presents a novel model of clustered u-d-s quark matter leading to stable strange quark matter and explores its implications for planetary impacts.
Findings
Clustered quark matter can form stable strangelets.
Impacts by strangelets could affect rocky bodies in the solar system.
Potential observable effects of strangelet impacts are discussed.
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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