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Meteorites from Comets? Recent Observational Developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

Humberto Campins
Humberto Campins*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611

Abstract

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Although most meteorites come from asteroids, some could originate from short-period comets. The identification of comet-asteroid transition object 4015 Wilson-Harrington as the first Apollo object known to have a cometary origin, confirms that short-period comets leave behind nonvolatile residues, from which meteoroids with low Earth-encounter velocities can originate. Studies of cometary fireballs suggest that some cometary meteoroids have high enough strengths to have survived atmospheric entry as cometary meteorites, which have either not been found or recognized. The presence of unequilibrated anhydrous silicates in cometary dust represents a significant difference between cometary material and CI and CM meteorites.

Type
X. Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 150: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics of Interplanetary Dust , 1996 , pp. 395 - 399
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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