[meteorite-list] Ceres and Meteorites?

From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:33:11 +0000
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000005500007CCE_at_10.0.100.101>

Hello MikeG and List,

MikeG inquires:

"Has Ceres ever been connected to any type of meteorite?"

GEHRELS TOM (1979) Asteroids (The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona,
1181 pp., Infrared Spectral Reflectances of Asteroid Surfaces, H.P. Larson and
G.J. Veeder, pp. 724-744, p. 735):

"... the surface of Ceres is a hydrated mineral assemblage that, if restricted
to comparisons with meteorites, most closely resembles Type C2 carbonaceous
chondrites...The comparison of Ceres' surface with primitive meteoritic matter
is most consistent with the spectral data."

Cheers, Bernd
Received on Fri 06 Mar 2015 05:33:11 AM PST