Hello Bernd and Darren: Swindle and Campins also wrote an article on cometary meteorites in the May, 2006 issue of Meteorite magazine.
Larry On Sat, July 12, 2008 11:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Darren wrote: > > > "Any numbers on how big the block would have to be? How small the > surviving piece could be? I'm thinking of some of those chunks of ice that > fall from the sky some times. Most come from planes. Could some be > cometary?" > > > Campins H. and Swindle T. (1998) Expected characteristics > of cometary meteorites (MAPS 33, 1998, pp. 1201-1211): > > "The possibility of ice meteorites from comets has been discussed by > Berczi and > Lukács (1997). They argue in favor of the survivability of ice meteoroids > through Earth's atmosphere and conclude that some make it to the ground. > However, no ice > meteorite has ever been recovered. Although a cometary origin should be > considered when and if any falling ice of extraterrestrial origin is > discovered, we will concentrate on the dusty or rocky portion of comets." > > > Best regards, > > > Bernd > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
