Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that one of the
Apollo missions returned a soil sample with a 1 gram
fragment of a carbonaceous chondrite in it.
I can't remember which mission it was, but I think
that it is recorded in the Catalog of Meteorites.
I'll have to look it up.
Steve Schoner.
[meteorite-list] Question about Meteorites on the Moon
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:43:07 -0700 (PDT),
Steven Schoner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that one of the
Apollo missions returned a soil sample with a 1 gram
fragment of a carbonaceous chondrite in it.
I
Hello all,
Tonight my 8 year old son Christopher and I were
out looking at the moon with our wholly inadequate telescope. It is fine for
looking at the moon but lacks the optics needed for much else.
Anyways he is a very smart kid and asked me a
couple of questions that I could not answer
Sounds like you covered most of the bases with your explanations to
Christopher -- I don't see any that I would substantially alter.
Survivability of a meteorite on the Moon's surface once it hits would
depend on: size of the object, type of terrain it hit (a big dust pool
vs. solid rock vs.
Ok Mark and Christopher I'll take a stab I don't know how
untechnical I can be.
Q1:First he wanted to know if a meteor hits the moon is it technically
a meteorite or are only meteors that hit the earth called a meteorite? My
answer was that once a meteoroid hits a terrestrial
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