[meteorite-list] Origins

[bernd.pauli at paulinet.de]

"mhutson" wrote:

> Enstatite chondrites contain a significant amount of metal and are 
> undifferentiated (roughly solar in composition).  Enstatite chondrites
> cannot be surface material from any large (planetary) object.

.. that is why Burbine et al. propose this:

"If Mercury formed out of highly reduced material, our closest meteoritic
analog to Mercury's surface composition would be the aubrites (enstatite
achondrites)."

Bernd