[meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?

[Matthias Bärmann]

Hello Eric, Larry, list , -

Tagish Lake is supposed to be one candidate ...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ancient-meteorites-from-o

Best regards,

Matthias Baermann


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: "Erik Fisler" <erikfwebb at msn.com>
Cc: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Kuiper Belt Meteorites?



> Hi Erik:

> 

> If memory serves, the original reason that G. P. Kuiper proposed the

> existance of the [Edgeworth] Kuiper Belt was as a source of comets with

> relatively short period (under a hundred years or so?) comets.

> 

> So, if you believe that some meteorites ocme from comets, then these

> probably originated in the Kuiper Belt.

> 

> Larry

> 

>>

>> Does anyone know if any meteorites on Earth are linked

>> to the Kuiper Belt Objects?

>> or is that too far away for a material to travel all the way to

>> Earth? or would Jupiter trap any parent bodies traveling past it?

>>

>> [Erik]

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