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Can We Find the Heaviest Elements in Asteroids?

Uranium is the heaviest element found in large amounts on Earth, with an atomic number of 92. Although heavier elements were formed in supernovae and particle accelerators, they decay into lighter elements. Physicists have long hoped for an island of stability where heavier elements could be stable, but they've failed to find them on Earth, where they would sink to the core. A physicist team thinks these heavier elements could be found in dense asteroids.

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