[meteorite-list] Lunar capture theory
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Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:03 2004 Message-ID: <16f.215ac34a.2c40c9ff_at_aol.com> --part1_16f.215ac34a.2c40c9ff_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 7/11/03 9:11:22 PM Central Daylight Time, pekka.savolainen_at_dlc.fi writes: > at the moment it looks to me, the theory, that the asteroid belt was formed > from the material left over, when our solar system was formed, is more > recent. But if it's truly "left over", how do you account for iron meteorites, which are (generally?) assumed to be the cores of these "missing" planets....leftover random junk wouldn't have formed to the mass to generate the thermal activity to differerniate into solid metal, would it? --part1_16f.215ac34a.2c40c9ff_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" FACE= =3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">In a message dated 7/11/03 9:11:22 PM Central Daylight= Time, pekka.savolainen_at_dlc.fi writes:<BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=3DCITE style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">at the moment it looks to me, t= he theory, that the asteroid belt was formed from the material left over, wh= en our solar system was formed, is more recent. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <BR> But if it's truly "left over", how do you account for iron meteorites, which= are (generally?) assumed to be the cores of these "missing" planets....left= over random junk wouldn't have formed to the mass to generate the thermal ac= tivity to differerniate into solid metal, would it?</FONT></HTML> --part1_16f.215ac34a.2c40c9ff_boundary-- Received on Fri 11 Jul 2003 10:18:39 PM PDT |
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