[meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?

lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu
Fri May 22 18:41:28 EDT 2009


Hi Erik:

If memory serves, the original reason that G. P. Kuiper proposed the
existance of the [Edgeworth] Kuiper Belt was as a source of comets with
relatively short period (under a hundred years or so?) comets.

So, if you believe that some meteorites ocme from comets, then these
probably originated in the Kuiper Belt.

Larry

>
> Does anyone know if any meteorites on Earth are linked
> to the Kuiper Belt Objects?
> or is that too far away for a material to travel all the way to
> Earth? or would Jupiter trap any parent bodies traveling past it?
>
> [Erik]
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