[meteorite-list] Re:The Hunt For Meteorites

From: Edward Hodges <holyfireballs_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:27 2004
Message-ID: <F36Eb1GL8bzU40RlxFt000082a0_at_hotmail.com>

  Just image that there must be remnants of the Earth on the moon from
similar large earth impacts, and they might be from when the Earth was very
young. That is a rock I'd like to hold in my hand and look at. Well now that
I think of it, the moon may very well be that rock.- Edward R. Hodges


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>This brings up an interesting question...
>
>I read that the moon if impacted by a large asteroid,
>say one that produced a crater 50 to 60 mi in diameter
>would several days later shower the earth with ejecta.
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>Millions of tons of it.
>
>So could it be that there are deposits of moon rocks in
>certain areas of the earth where the sediments coincide
>with the cratering events on the moon?
>
>Steve Schoner.
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