[meteorite-list] Extra-solar material?
Mark Crawford
mark at meteorites.cc
Sat May 3 09:02:22 EDT 2008
I'm reading Paul Davies' "The Fifth Miracle". In chapter 6 it refers to
the 1996 discovery by Taylor, Baggaley and Steel of inter-stellar dust
particles entering the earth's atmosphere in the form of fast (>
70-km/s) meteors:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v380/n6572/abs/380323a0.html
It got me wondering as to whether there are any candidates for
meteorites which may be of extra-solar origin. Are there any? How
would they be identified - a suspiciously long CRE age would perhaps be
one indicator?
Mark
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