Re: (meteorobs) Life on Comets

• To: meteorobs@latrade.com
• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Life on Comets
• From: GeoZay@aol.com
• Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:52:48 -0500 (EST)
• Reply-To: meteorobs@latrade.com
• Sender: owner-meteorobs

In a message dated 97-03-06 08:51:52 EST, you write:

<< Maybe Ceres is an exausted comet, like Patheon for the Geminids, or
probably
 > not all types of carbonaceous chondrites are like comets,
 
 It would have be comet two orders of magnitude larger than we currently 
 observe.  Ceres has a diameter of about 685 km!
  >>
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Malcolm,
I was thinking the same thing. Seems like if you think of the Asteroid belt,
the Kuiper belt, and the Oort cloud as a whole, they could be very much
related in the mechanics that formed them...or left them pretty much intact?
George Zay

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