Robert: Do you own a CI or a CM? Then you have a meteorite with clay minerals in it!
Larry > 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 > 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