[meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?

From: Katsu OHTSUKA <ohtsuka_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 21:39:03 +0900
Message-ID: <8EB11CE54FC0449D8C9A2305FF3A9E4B_at_KATSU>

Hello Eric, Larry, Matthias, and all

El-Quss Abu Said (CM2) seems to be a cometary (or KBO) meteorite
candidate:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008M%26PSA..43.5124N

Katsu OHTSUKA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias B?rmann" <majbaermann at web.de>
To: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>; "Erik Fisler" <erikfwebb at msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?


> 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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