True, though whole asteroids could tell us whether the most of parent bodies of our chondrites are differentiated, which is something I would like to know more ablout.. perhaps drilling core samples rather than the entire rock - the machine in question could land on it rather than trying to catch it lol.
----------- Melanie IMCA: 2975 eBay: metmel2775 Known on SkyRock Cafe as SpaceCollector09 Unclassified meteorites are like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get! ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Peterson <c...@alumni.caltech.edu> To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Fri, April 23, 2010 9:55:25 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Capturing asteroids in orbit To what end? Certainly, there is nothing to be found on asteroids that can't be obtained far cheaper on Earth. Chris ***************************************** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melanie Matthews" <miss_meteor...@yahoo.ca> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:20 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Capturing asteroids in orbit > I wonder if it would possible to send some machines to the asteroid belt to > capture some whole asteroids and bring them to Earth? Or would they be > drifting too quickly in their orbits to capture with the current technology? > Also would decent-sized samples from such captures be available to collectors? > > ----------- > Melanie ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
