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Interrelations of Meteorites, Asteroids, and Comets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
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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- Part II-Origin of Asteroids Interrelations with Comets, Meteorites, and Meteors
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 429 - 446
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- Copyright © NASA 1971
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