[meteorite-list] Origins

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 12 17:42:14 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000001E000022E7_at_paulinet.de>

"mhutson" wrote:

> Enstatite chondrites contain a significant amount of metal and are
> undifferentiated (roughly solar in composition). Enstatite chondrites
> cannot be surface material from any large (planetary) object.

.. that is why Burbine et al. propose this:

"If Mercury formed out of highly reduced material, our closest meteoritic
analog to Mercury's surface composition would be the aubrites (enstatite
achondrites)."

Bernd
Received on Sat 12 Jun 2004 05:42:13 PM PDT