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Meteorites from Mercury?
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post Oct 28 2008, 07:09 PM
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I see in the current issue of Astronomy magazine (November 2008) that there is a very interesting article about a class of meteorites that are theorised to have possibly originated on Mercury. We now know of meteorites that came from the Moon and Mars, and there might also be some from Venus, but I think that it is fascinating that we may have, right here on Earth, pieces of the innermost planet at hand.

Would it take a sample return mission from Mercury to prove these meteorites came from the planet or could the Messeneger results in the coming years clinch the question?

What do others think?
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- Enceladus75   Meteorites from Mercury?   Oct 28 2008, 07:09 PM
- - PhilCo126   How would these meteorites end up in an orbit towa...   Oct 29 2008, 08:46 AM
- - PhilCo126   Intrigued I started an Internet search and came up...   Oct 29 2008, 09:01 AM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Oct 29 2008, 09:01 AM)...   Oct 29 2008, 11:12 AM
- - Enceladus75   Thanks for the replies guys. It seems like the orb...   Oct 29 2008, 12:34 PM
- - tty   I think Venus is if anything less likely the Mercu...   Oct 29 2008, 07:35 PM
|- - NGC3314   QUOTE (tty @ Oct 29 2008, 02:35 PM) Incid...   Oct 29 2008, 08:22 PM
|- - Antdoghalo   QUOTE (NGC3314 @ Oct 29 2008, 04:22 PM) A...   Mar 24 2010, 02:21 AM
- - nprev   Wouldn't it be a bit hard to identify a Terran...   Oct 29 2008, 10:05 PM
|- - pjam   QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 29 2008, 06:35 PM) Wou...   Mar 22 2010, 06:15 PM
|- - Rob Pinnegar   QUOTE (pjam @ Mar 22 2010, 11:15 AM) It...   Mar 24 2010, 02:37 PM
- - pjam   ...as an afterthought, meteorite delivery from Mar...   Mar 22 2010, 06:28 PM
- - Explorer1   We do known there are some massive impacts on Merc...   Mar 22 2010, 11:21 PM
- - ngunn   I'm sure I've read somewhere that although...   Mar 22 2010, 11:58 PM
- - pjam   ...An oldie but goodie paper that considers that M...   Mar 23 2010, 02:10 AM
- - Explorer1   I imagine Mercury would sweep them up pretty quick...   Mar 24 2010, 02:31 AM
- - machi   Extinction on Permian/Triassic boundary is probabl...   Mar 24 2010, 12:16 PM
- - tty   The largest (known) young meteor craters are Kara...   Mar 24 2010, 07:08 PM
- - pjam   Hey, that's a good point about Kara-Kul being ...   Mar 30 2010, 04:46 AM
- - stevesliva   News from the Mercury meteorite front: Could be: ...   Apr 12 2013, 05:35 PM
- - TheAnt   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Apr 12 2013, 07:35 PM...   Apr 13 2013, 02:21 PM


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