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

From: Martin Horejsi <martinh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:44 2004
Message-ID: <B8634D3F.1151%martinh_at_isu.edu>

Hi Kevin and All,

Not only that, I believe it was Hap who, while sipping down a couple
long-neck brewskies, came up with Mars a the SNC planet body.

If only my thoughts while drinking were so insightful.

Cheers,

Martin




On 1/10/02 1:46 PM, "MARSROX_at_aol.com" <MARSROX@aol.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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