[meteorite-list] Comets as meteorite source: another comet sample

E.P. Grondine epgrondine at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 21 16:41:48 EDT 2006


Hi Jason, 

I think Clube and Napier would argue that all
carbonaceous chondritic asteroids are captured burned
out comets.  From what I understand of Horace
Shapely's work, he held similar views.

good hunting, 
Ed

--- Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Ed, All,
> Frank T. Kyte did supposedly find a piece of the
> Chicxulub impactor in a
> core sample.
> His research, however, indicated that the fragment
> that he discovered was
> not cometary, but asteroidal in composition.  He
> determined it to be either
> CV, CR, or CO.
> See:
> http://www.scn.org/~bh162/meteorite.html
> Regards,
> Jason
> 
> 
> On 8/21/06, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > There is yet another comet sample: a carbonaceous
> > chondrite was recovered from the KT layer by a
> core
> > drilled in the Pacific.
> >
> > Berndt should have the details on this one at hand
> in
> > his database. My own memory is not so good since
> my
> > stroke, and I have limited energy available.
> >
> > good hunting,
> > Ed
> >
> > __________________________________________________
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
> protection around
> > http://mail.yahoo.com
> > ______________________________________________
> > Meteorite-list mailing list
> > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> >
>
http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
> >
> 


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com 



More information about the Meteorite-list mailing list