[meteorite-list] Earliest Meteorites Provide New Piece inPlanetary Formation Puzzle

From: MarkF <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Sep 20 12:51:50 2005
Message-ID: <01eb01c5be03$ad346a80$01fea8c0_at_MAF>

Sounds like reporter that has no business doing science articles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Horejsi" <accretiondesk_at_gmail.com>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Earliest Meteorites Provide New Piece
inPlanetary Formation Puzzle


Hi Ron and all,

Thanks for the story.

Two lines make me wonder exactly what meteorites they used in the research:

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> The researchers at Imperial College London reached their conclusions after
> analysing the composition of primitive meteorites, coal-like rocks that
> are older than the earth and which have barely changed since the Solar
> System was made up of fine dust and gas.

and

> The researchers analysed
> around half of the approximately 45 primitive meteorite falls in existence
> around the world.

I ran a query for carbonaceous meteorites using the COM database and
came up with 36 witnessed falls, and 561 total. Winonites, a total of
11 listed. Brachinites, 7 entries.

Any more info or guesses?

Cheers,

Martin
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