[meteorite-list] There are no silly questions? Wait until you have read that :-)

2004-10-19 Thread Bernhard Rems
Ok, there are some questions going through my mind concerning meteorites. My knowledge is based on what I have read and heard (not on study), and some things do not fit together for me. 1) HEDs are from Vesta. Fine. All of them? How comes that with 50.000+ known asteroids, all HEDs come from a

Re: [meteorite-list] There are no silly questions? Wait until you have read that :-)

2004-10-19 Thread star-bits
1) HEDs are from Vesta. Fine. All of them? How comes that with 50.000+ known asteroids, all HEDs come from a single one? As far as I know, spectroscopic evidence points to Vesta, yes - but how large is the chance that HEDs do NOT come from Vesta. No they don't all come from Vesta.The