[meteorite-list] Ibitira and the HED parent body Vesta (?)
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Sun Oct 16 17:20:28 EDT 2005
On 16 Oct 2005 20:04:43 UT, bernd.pauli at paulinet.de wrote:
>Hello Ibitirarians, Eucritarians and Listoids :-)
>
>Ibitira is a basaltic eucrite, and, like all the other eucrites, was believed
>to have come from the HED parent body, the asteroid 4 Vesta, but ...
>
>according to an article by D.W. Mittlefehldt in MAPS 40-5, 2005, pp.665-677,
>there are (at least) 5 differentiated parent asteroids for the eucrites in our
>collections:
>
>1. the HED parent body
>2. the mesosiderite parent body
>3. the angrite parent body
>4. the NWA 011 parent body
>5. the Ibitira parent body
I just wonder, now that the opinion on Ceres has been changed from undifferentiated to
differentaited, if some of the those eucrites are from Ceres.
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