[meteorite-list] Extra-solar material?
From: Mark Crawford <mark_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 14:02:22 +0100 Message-ID: <481C625E.4080200_at_meteorites.cc> I'm reading Paul Davies' "The Fifth Miracle". In chapter 6 it refers to the 1996 discovery by Taylor, Baggaley and Steel of inter-stellar dust particles entering the earth's atmosphere in the form of fast (> 70-km/s) meteors: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v380/n6572/abs/380323a0.html It got me wondering as to whether there are any candidates for meteorites which may be of extra-solar origin. Are there any? How would they be identified - a suspiciously long CRE age would perhaps be one indicator? Mark -- Mark's Meteorite Pages: http://meteorites.ccReceived on Sat 03 May 2008 09:02:22 AM PDT |
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