RE: [meteorite-list] 73P in 2022?

2006-10-03 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Rob - Take a look at the Rio Curaca and Rupunini impacts, then opine. That material came from some source, and an SW3 debris stream makes a pretty good candidate. Thankfully, worrying about all of this is not my job. It's NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's, by act of Congress. I'm optimis

RE: [meteorite-list] 73P in 2022?

2006-10-01 Thread Rob Matson
Hi Ed, Finally getting back to you on the subject of 73P's return at the end of May in 2022. > Aside from the recent bolides, and the several hundred > pound TNT equivalent hit at Troms, Norway, there appear to > have been hits by large SW3 fragments at Rio Curaca, Brazil, > 1930, 10 August, an

Re: [meteorite-list] 73P in 2022?

2006-09-22 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi Rob - I don't think a spacecraft launch will be necessary to obtain samples, but perhaps several launches may be necessary for other reasons. Aside from the recent bolides, and the several hundred pound TNT equivalent hit at Troms, Norway, there appear to have been hits by large SW3 fragments

[meteorite-list] 73P in 2022?

2006-09-21 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Ed, > Of course, SW3 is likely to provide us with some samples, > certainly by 2022. Perhaps I'm reading too much into your posts, but several times in recent weeks you've mentioned the 2022 encounter with the 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann cometary debris stream as if it will be a certain, spectacu