[meteorite-list] Origins continued Lagrange Points...was NWA 5400 Age & Origin Processes

From: MEM <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:35:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <958310.14860.qm_at_web55207.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

My Bad! I misread the factsheet regarding 3753 Cruithne which isn't a
Trojan by definition...sigh. So the Trojans we are looking at visiting are
those of Jupiter.


BUT if we were looking for left over shards--very very small ones... I assume
this is amongst other places is a candidate for where we might find some.

Thanks Richard it is a real asset to have so many world class experts on the
list to

keep me straight.

Elton




----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com>
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Sent: Wed, September 29, 2010 2:37:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Origins continued Lagrange Points...was NWA 5400

>Age & Origin Processes
>
> Elton,
> to date there are no known Earth Trojans.
>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
> IMCA #1081
>
>
> --- On Wed, 9/29/10, MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Origins continued Lagrange Points...was NWA
>5400 Age & Origin Processes
> > To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 10:28 AM
> > This discussion prompted me to wonder
> > what reservoirs might exist that could
> > preserve any big wack debris which was not re-accreted onto
> > the Earth or Moon.
> > I came up with the natural orbital parking lot known as the
> > Earth Trojans. For
> > those unaware, they orbit in the Lagrangian point's L4 and
> > L5 which are
> > 60degrees ahead and behind Earth's relative orbit around
> > the Sun. (There is a
> > rumor afoot that we are going to send a mission to the
> > Trojans but I don't know
> > which planetary swarm of Trojans that might be, In theory
> > all planets have their
> > own Trojans). Langrngian point Trojan orbits are
> > theoretically very stable and
> > long lived but not immune to being rewacked out of that
> > comfort zone from time
> > to time.
> >
> > Is anyone aware of the of spectral matches with the
> > bracinites or bracinite and
> > a possible
> >
> > parent body? Have any spectral matches been found in
> > the Earth Trojans ?
> > And are there any bracinite candidates in the Lagrange
> > points/ Earth Trojans?
> >
> > Other possible long lived locations might be a a
> > steeply inclined polar orbit
> > around earth although lunar mechanics might not permit
> > that. There has also
> > been much speculation about the existence of a debris swarm
> > at the Lunar
> > Lagrangian points as well.
> >
> > Elton
> > For a discussion of Lagrange points:
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point>
> >
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