[meteorite-list] Allende parent body?

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Fri Apr 15 19:28:42 EDT 2011


There is no particularly good reason to think that Allende (or any other 
meteorite) is cometary in origin.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 4/15/2011 5:04 PM, E.P. Grondine wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> The work on magnetism in meteorite parent bodies is interesting, but I thought that Allende's parent body was cometary.
>
> If so, shouldn't the headline read: "Comets found to have hard centers"?
>
> Or is this part of NASA's plan to have comets declared to be asteroids?
>
> E.P. Grondine



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