[meteorite-list] Earthites

[drtanuki]

Steve and List,
  Thanks for your contribution to this discussion. 
Your information may help lead to the finding of an
Earthite.  Best, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- Steve Schoner <steve_schoner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think that "Earthites" would have a very high
> amount
> of Maskelynite should plagioclase be present in the
> parent rock.  The impacts from earth would be so
> energetic as to create more of this mineral than in
> Martian meteorites.
> 
> The atmospheric composition would then, just as the
> case with Martian meteorites, reveal that such rocks
> are indeed from earth and are thus "Earthites."
> 
> Steve Schoner
> AMS
> 
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