re: (meteorobs) Meteorites and Planets

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• Subject: re: (meteorobs) Meteorites and Planets
• From: wayne.t.hally@bangate1.TEK.COM
• Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 10:28:55 EDT
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>UC Berkeley theorists propose explanation for puzzling composition of
>meteorites

>By Robert Sanders


>Chondrules eventually coalesced with the remaining cold matter
>in the planetary disk to form asteroids, which are thought to
>have aggregated into the planets. Asteroids today are found
>primarily in a belt between Mars and Jupiter, serving as the
>source of meteors that frequently cross paths with the Earth.

Hmmmmmm Asteroids are THE source of meteors that frequently cross paths 
with the earth????

Mr Sanders never heard of Swift/Tuttle, Tempel Tuttle, Halley's Comet????

And as we all here know, meteors do not cross the earth's path, Meteoroids 
do!!!

Tsk Tsk Tsk

Wayne, picking nits off his computer screen :->

Speaking of nits, BTW, noticed an error in Science News about the 1999 
Leonids; they say moon will be Full. Bzzzzzzt... just past first quarter.

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