[meteorite-list] 60X image of NWA 011
From: stan . <laser_maniac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Aug 22 21:35:46 2004 Message-ID: <BAY18-F192NehG7XtDI0008aba2_at_hotmail.com> Ron I was more or less asking if there was any NEW evidence to continue to support the mercurian hypothesis, i thought it had been actually rulled out instead of simply left as an unlikely suspect. Ie David Weirs web site entry for nwa 011 said that Mn-Cr isotopse data from boddanovsky et al actually rulled out mercury as the parent body.... >From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> >To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 60X image of NWA 011 >Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:02:00 -0700 (PDT) > > > > has there been any new evidence pointing to a mercurian origin for this > > stuff? i thought such origin was definatly rulled out in favor of a > > carbonaceous body origin > >There has been speculation that NWA 011 may be from either Mercury or >Venus. >But it is just speculation, and it is most than likely to be from an >asteroid. > > > http://aaa.wustl.edu/Work/pub_files/northwestafrica011.html > > > >Quoting from the link you just provided: > >"The material from which NWA 011 originated may have been like some > CH or CB chondrites, members of the CR chondrite clan, which are all > related through oxygen isotopic compositions. The NWA 011 parent body > is probably of asteroidal origin, possibly the basaltic asteroid > 1459 Magnya." > >Ron Baalke >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ Received on Sun 22 Aug 2004 09:34:17 PM PDT |
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