[meteorite-list] Fw: New Issue: Granite-like rocks on Vesta

[Pete Shugar]

I thought that the presence of Quartz was a good indication
that the rock was not a meteorite !!!!!
Now it seems that at least the 4 Vesta meteorites can have
some Quartz in them?????
Pete
IMCA 1733
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Flaherty" <grf2 at verizon.net>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: New Issue: Granite-like rocks on Vesta


> List/Darren you had asked once about granite. I don't remember if was a 
> compositional or an origin issue.
> I do know that granite's crystaline structure results from slow cooling 
> under monumental pressures [substantially 5 miles of overburden is a 
> commonly mentioned denominator-often referred to as "the roots of 
> mountains".
> So what if anything does this tell us about Vesta's possible history?
> Jerry Flaherty
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> Subject: New Issue: Granite-like rocks on Vesta
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>> Announcement from Planetary Science Research Discoveries [PSRD] wedsite
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>> New article online: The Complicated Geologic History of Asteroid 4 Vesta
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>> -- Meteorites from asteroid 4 Vesta show that it contains patches of 
>> granite-like rock.
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