[meteorite-list] What Meteorite is 'From' the farthest location from the Earth?

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:25:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <706022.49506.qm_at_web113619.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi Greg.

You probably will not be able to get a definitive answer to this one. Meteorite parent bodies are from asteroids and the most likely mechanism to inject asteroids and their fragments into orbits that intersect the earth is perturbations by Jupiter. This places most asteroidal meteorites parent bodies in the outer Main Belt.

As far as I know, there are no meteorites that have all the expected properties that a cometary meteorite should have, so that makes the Main Belt the most distant source of meteorites currently known.

If a cometary meteorite is discovered, it's parent ultimately would be the Oort Cloud, so that would change "The most distant" record holder instantly.

Campins and Swindle presented a summary on what properties a cometary meteorite should have at the 39th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in 2008. It can be read here:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC98/pdf/1004.pdf

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Mon, 7/12/10, Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Thunder Stone <stanleygregr at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] What Meteorite is 'From' the farthest location from the Earth?
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, July 12, 2010, 1:17 PM
> 
> Hi List:
> 
> I was wondering if it is know what meteorite(s) is from (or
> was created) at the farthest point from Earth?? I know they
> come from the asteroid belt and perhaps from comets, but
> wouldn't it be really neat to have a meteorite that was
> formed or (from) the farthest distance from Earth in your
> hand: I think it would.
> 
> Greg S.
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Received on Mon 12 Jul 2010 05:25:42 PM PDT