[meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 01:31:04 +0200
Message-ID: <1A6FC4554D634E75A22B6373F3F9D362_at_thinkcentre>

Hello Eric, Larry, list , -

Tagish Lake is supposed to be one candidate ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancient-meteorites-from-o

Best regards,

Matthias Baermann


----- Original Message -----
From: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: "Erik Fisler" <erikfwebb at msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?


> Hi Erik:
>
> If memory serves, the original reason that G. P. Kuiper proposed the
> existance of the [Edgeworth] Kuiper Belt was as a source of comets with
> relatively short period (under a hundred years or so?) comets.
>
> So, if you believe that some meteorites ocme from comets, then these
> probably originated in the Kuiper Belt.
>
> Larry
>
>>
>> Does anyone know if any meteorites on Earth are linked
>> to the Kuiper Belt Objects?
>> or is that too far away for a material to travel all the way to
>> Earth? or would Jupiter trap any parent bodies traveling past it?
>>
>> [Erik]
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