] Early Mercury Impact Showered Earth
Definitely a thought provoking article. There are one
or two things which have nagged me about Mercury and I
see no reason why this article cannot point in the
direction of solving them.
We think that Mercury was created from a larger
parent body
Hi Sterling:
You left out the most recent of the impact theories: how do we get so many
Trans Neptunian Objects with satellites? Large impacts!
Larry
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Early Mercury Impact Showered Earth
Hi Sterling:
You left out the most
Listees,
The Giant Impact Theory
may be improvable in the strictest sense...
Doh!
I meant UNPROVABLE, of course!
This is what happens when you write
for The List only two hours after having
a large decayed canine tooth pulled, while
the brain is still swimming in a pool of
Definitely a thought provoking article. There are one
or two things which have nagged me about Mercury and I
see no reason why this article cannot point in the
direction of solving them.
We think that Mercury was created from a larger
parent body that was
involved in a catastrophic collision
Hi,
Ron Baalke posted:
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Early_Mercury_Impact_Showered_Earth.html
Early Mercury Impact Showered Earth
Given the amount of material that would have been ejected in such a
catastrophe, Horner said, Earth could contain as much as 16 quadrillion
tons of
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