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Interrelations of Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Edward Anders
Edward Anders*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago

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Most meteorites come from a small number of parent bodies (6 to 11), with radii mainly between 100 and 300 km. The most likely sources of meteorites are seven asteroid families between 1.9 and 2.8AU, whose eccentricities and inclinations are high enough to permit their collisional debris to cross the orbit of Mars. Comets are too small and too numerous to serve as a source of the major meteorite classes, but they may well be an important source of micrometeorites and carbonaceous chondrites.

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Type
Part II-Origin of Asteroids Interrelations with Comets, Meteorites, and Meteors
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 429 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1971

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