[meteorite-list] Allende parent body?

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:28:42 -0600
Message-ID: <4DA8D4AA.2010004_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

There is no particularly good reason to think that Allende (or any other
meteorite) is cometary in origin.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 4/15/2011 5:04 PM, E.P. Grondine wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> The work on magnetism in meteorite parent bodies is interesting, but I thought that Allende's parent body was cometary.
>
> If so, shouldn't the headline read: "Comets found to have hard centers"?
>
> Or is this part of NASA's plan to have comets declared to be asteroids?
>
> E.P. Grondine
Received on Fri 15 Apr 2011 07:28:42 PM PDT