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

Jason Utas meteoritekid at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 19:20:06 EDT 2006


Hello Ed, All,
I have my doubs about that (no real proof yet...), but in any case, even
assuming that they are "burned out comets," you should be making a clear
distinction between the snowballs of the outer solar system and the "burned
out" cometary asteroids of the inner solar system.
They're different things.  Clearly.
Regards,
Jason


On 8/21/06, E.P. Grondine <epgrondine at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> > >
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