[meteorite-list] Meteorite Composition Question

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:04:17 -0800
Message-ID: <BC597A242425413991973FBD150EA88B_at_bosoheadPC>

Mike G...great question.

If I may paraphrase your question, "Are there any elements out there that we
don't know about yet, that meteorites have or haven't shown us or will show
us?"

It answers itself....(what we have in meteoritic science/anaysis is what we
already have here, and coupled with our astronomy pioneers who probe their
magic, bouncing everything off of whatever they can, coupled with all the
science I can't even comprehend........)

Although, it doesn't rule out what we haven't found, nor detected, nor
whatever else...it does embrace the GREAT iminent X-factor rule: what we
don't know yet, we don't know yet, but we will, when we do!

-Richard



----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Composition Question


> No. Meteorites are made up of the same set of elements we see everywhere
> in the Universe. Because they were formed or evolved in a different
> environment than Earth, meteorites do contain minerals that are rare or
> nonexistent here, but nothing that can't be identified and understood.
>
> Chris
>
> *****************************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Groetz" <mpg4444 at gmail.com>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:19 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Composition Question
>
>
>> Am having a hard time posting to the list. This is my third try-
>> please bear with me. If this does not go through- I will not be trying
>> again.
>>
>> Meteorite composition is identified using known "earth" chemicals
>> and substances. Have there ever been any meteorites analyzed, where
>> even the most minor substances within it, cannot be identified using
>> known "earthly" terms? In other words- "We don't know what it is?".
>>
>> I've always wondered this if any of you would know.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Mike Groetz
>
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