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[dvandorn]

I was watching a special on the National Geographic Channel last night, in which they discussed the Taggish Lake (I think I have that name right) meteor.

Now, in earlier coverage of that event, I had learned that the pieces of that meteor were light and frothy, with more voids than rock. However, last night, an LPI investigator showed one rather solid piece and stated that it was simply a set of clays.

So -- if that's the case, then why in the Solar System was anyone surprised that Deep Impact indicated the presence of clays in Temple II?

Obviously, the Taggish Lake meteor was a fairly decent-sized chunk of a comet. Which means we've been examining cometary clays for some years now.

Anyone have any further details on this?

-the other Doug