[meteorite-list] Hap McSween- Sortin' thru the 'roids

From: MARSROX_at_aol.com <MARSROX_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:44 2004
Message-ID: <135.78c7ab1.296f57a8_at_aol.com>

Dateline: USA Today (1/10/02)

"U of Tenn. geology professor Harry "Hap" McSween will join a NASA mission to
send an unmanned spacecraft to distant asteroids. The probe to launch in 2006
will go to the solar system's two largest known asteroids: Vesta and Ceres.
McSween has studied meteorites believed to have come from Vesta."

Oh yeh, he's studied them a bit! For those who don't know their Hall-of-Fame
meteoriticists, "Hap" is a charter member. Author of "Meteorites and their
Parent Planets", the book that completes the trilogy of "must reads"
(Nininger - Catch a Falling Star, Norton - Rocks from Space being the first
two), his Invited Review, "What we have learned about Mars from SNC
meteorites" references more than 200 papers on Mars meteorites. This paper is
a home study textbook for Meteorites 101. If you could take just one science
paper on meteorites to the proverbial desert island.....

What a fabulous choice for this project!

Short list of Vesta origin suspected meteorites -

Howardites
Eucrites
Diogenites
Mesosiderites
and.......?

Kevin Kichinka
Received on Thu 10 Jan 2002 03:46:32 PM PST