[meteorite-list] A question?????

Jeff Grossman jgrossman at usgs.gov
Fri Jun 5 06:12:46 EDT 2009


I think most scientists would call it a terrestrial meteorite, or 
perhaps a terran meteorite.

jeff

Pete Shugar at clearwire.net wrote:
> We have the Martian type meteorite, and we have the
> Lunar meteorite and last, the asteroid 4Vesta meteorite.
> These we know where they come from.
>
> Now the question---given enough energy, can a meteorite
> hit earth and eject debris which (maybe) land on the moon
> or Mars? What would we call such a meteorite---Earthoid,
> or maybe Earthite?
> Just contemplating my navel here.
> Pete
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