Hi Sterling -
It would ironic (at the least) if we were to go from
Moon volcanoes that are really impacts all the way to
Mercury impacts that are really volcanoes!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/science/space/17mercury.html
Not to Hermann Burchard. To paraphrase:
Many Earth impacts resulted
Carl.,
Thank you so much for this very good information. So,
If as you say the FeO is such a big deal. Why then would they have neglected to
mention it if they found it?
Is it possible Mercury is extremely depleted in FeO?
I mean how could they miss it if it's there?
And if it's not there. What
Carl:
My guess is that the FeO data are not ready for primetime. As I
understand it the XPS and the GRS on Messenger both will produce data
on FeO. So I guess we will just have to wait until more information
trickles out through press releases. The good stuff will probably be
presented in a
Of course it's still early days on understanding the Mercury data
coming back from Messenger, but I think there are a few simple things
that can be said about the two geochemical graphs that were part of
the press release. The major element graph of Al/Si versus Mg/Si
clearly shows that the
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Of course it's still early days on understanding
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Of course it's still early days on understanding the Mercury data
coming back from
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:59:52 -0500
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Thanks, Carl. That's was what I was hoping for.
There are two Theories of Mercury --- the old one,
that Mercury formed from inner disk materials, all
iron
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Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:28 PM
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Hi, Sterling and All,
Here's an interesting little article I came across in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473
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