[meteorite-list] Earthites

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Sep 25 22:47:35 2005
Message-ID: <20050926024733.7155.qmail_at_web53211.mail.yahoo.com>

Steve and List,
  Thanks for your contribution to this discussion.
Your information may help lead to the finding of an
Earthite. Best, Dirk Ross...Tokyo

--- Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> I think that "Earthites" would have a very high
> amount
> of Maskelynite should plagioclase be present in the
> parent rock. The impacts from earth would be so
> energetic as to create more of this mineral than in
> Martian meteorites.
>
> The atmospheric composition would then, just as the
> case with Martian meteorites, reveal that such rocks
> are indeed from earth and are thus "Earthites."
>
> Steve Schoner
> AMS
>
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