[meteorite-list] Serious question?

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:29:57 2004
Message-ID: <001a01c37dee$1b92cd80$49c043d8_at_malcolm>

Hey List, I got it figured out! The large Iron the disintegrated must have
came from the same parent body as the Nantan!!!!!
Thanks, Tom
Peregrineflier <><
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----- Original Message -----
From: S. Singletary <jumper_at_MIT.EDU>
To: chris sharp <casper_at_cooloola.net>; Charles R. Viau <cviau@beld.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Serious question?


> At 08:55 PM 9/18/2003 +1000, chris sharp wrote:
> >The iron impactor disintegrated and spread iron all over the planet in
> >a fallout cloud and created a layer of iron rich material on the
> >surface.
>
> My knee-jerk reaction to that is to think about the large iron meteorites
> in our collections. They tend to be the most competent and coherent and
> hence will hold together on impact. It doesn't seem likely to me that an
> iron will disintegrate in the fashion you are talking about on impact.
I'm
> not sure of that, just my first reaction to the statement.
>
> Steven
>
>
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