Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-26 Thread E.P. Grondine
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-20 Thread cdtucson
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Agee
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

[meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Carl Agee
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
--- - Original Message - From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:16 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Mercury data Of course it's still early days on understanding

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Michael Mulgrew
--- - Original Message - From: Carl Agee a...@unm.edu To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:16 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Mercury data Of course it's still early days on understanding the Mercury data coming back from

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Pete Pete
To: a...@unm.edu; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:59:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data 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

Re: [meteorite-list] Mercury data

2011-06-19 Thread Sterling K. Webb
...@sbcglobal.net; a...@unm.edu; meteoritelist meteoritelist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:28 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Mercury data Hi, Sterling and All, Here's an interesting little article I came across in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473