Space rock on my mantlepiece

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Wed Feb 9 08:58:03 EST 2005


Hawkfan writes:

> Hmmm, according to
> http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/earth/metcat/metsPerGroup.dsml Lunar
> meteorites are rarer than Martian meteorites, but not by that much ...

I'm puzzled by that. Surely anything knocked off the Moon by meteoric
impact would already be in an Earth-crossing orbit. Seems therefore much
more likely that these would hit Earth than the same situation on Mars.

FoFP



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