[meteorite-list] Ibitira and the HED parent body Vesta (?)

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Oct 16 17:01:35 2005
Message-ID: <3tg5l1hak0bvtb7t8nb82duvf7un1o7vaf_at_4ax.com>

On 16 Oct 2005 20:04:43 UT, bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de wrote:

>Hello Ibitirarians, Eucritarians and Listoids :-)
>
>Ibitira is a basaltic eucrite, and, like all the other eucrites, was believed
>to have come from the HED parent body, the asteroid 4 Vesta, but ...
>
>according to an article by D.W. Mittlefehldt in MAPS 40-5, 2005, pp.665-677,
>there are (at least) 5 differentiated parent asteroids for the eucrites in our
>collections:
>
>1. the HED parent body
>2. the mesosiderite parent body
>3. the angrite parent body
>4. the NWA 011 parent body
>5. the Ibitira parent body

I just wonder, now that the opinion on Ceres has been changed from undifferentiated to
differentaited, if some of the those eucrites are from Ceres.
Received on Sun 16 Oct 2005 05:20:28 PM PDT