Hey List, I got it figured out! The large Iron the disintegrated must have came from the same parent body as the Nantan!!!!! Thanks, Tom Peregrineflier <>< The proudest member of the IMCA 6168 ----- Original Message ----- From: S. Singletary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: chris sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Charles R. Viau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:23 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Serious question?
> At 08:55 PM 9/18/2003 +1000, chris sharp wrote: > >The iron impactor disintegrated and spread iron all over the planet in > >a fallout cloud and created a layer of iron rich material on the > >surface. > > My knee-jerk reaction to that is to think about the large iron meteorites > in our collections. They tend to be the most competent and coherent and > hence will hold together on impact. It doesn't seem likely to me that an > iron will disintegrate in the fashion you are talking about on impact. I'm > not sure of that, just my first reaction to the statement. > > Steven > > > Steven Singletary > 54-1224 > Dept. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences > M.I.T. > Cambridge, MA, 02139 > Tel-617.253.6398 > Fax-617.253.7102 > > Blue Skies! > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
