After reading this article, I have a question: Do we have to keep an open mind to the possibility of finding a "clay meteorite"? -- Bob V.
<http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/breakingorbit/2010/10/geminids-meteor-shower-driven-by-exploding-clays.html> Exploding Clays Drive Geminids Sky Show? ++++++++ If the Geminids are the spawn of Pallas, their meteorites could teach us a lot about that huge and hard-to-reach parent body. "Pallas is second largest asteroid [by volume], and we don't know much about it," Campins said. "So if we actually have pieces of it that come to the Earth and could be recovered, we would have a free sample-return mission to the asteroid." --------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
