Comments on: New study uses meteorites to date moon-forming impact /news/2015/04/23/new-study-uses-meteorites-to-date-moon-forming-impact/ News from the ¶«¾«Ó°Òµ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ed Scott /news/2015/04/23/new-study-uses-meteorites-to-date-moon-forming-impact/#comment-326715 Tue, 05 May 2015 20:26:17 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=34038#comment-326715 In reply to Maureen Coffey.

Thanks for your comment.
We think that meteorites like the one shown called PAT 91501 were part of asteroids that were hit by debris from the collision that formed the Moon around 4.47 billion years ago. It was thrown out of the asteroid belt by another impact within the last 100 Myr which tossed it inwards towards Mars and Earth. Some fragments from impacts in the asteroid belt are thrown out and hit Jupiter but some of the material thrown inwards will eventually hit Mars, the Earth (or Moon) or Venus. The rest goes into the Sun.
Hitting the Earth from the asteroid belt is more likely than hitting a golf hole in one in Florida because any small body orbiting the Sun closer than the asteroid belt will have an unstable orbit. After a few million years orbiting the Sun, it may come close to Mars and get nudged inwards again, or outwards. So it isn’t a straight shot at Earth! It takes a very long time.

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By: Astronomy 101 | gpixmedia.com /news/2015/04/23/new-study-uses-meteorites-to-date-moon-forming-impact/#comment-325673 Fri, 01 May 2015 16:11:32 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=34038#comment-325673 […] New study uses meteorites to date moon-forming impact … the Moon-forming impact event with asteroidal meteorites appears in the current issue of the journal Science. […]

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By: Maureen Coffey /news/2015/04/23/new-study-uses-meteorites-to-date-moon-forming-impact/#comment-324817 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:27:27 +0000 http://www.hawaii.edu/news/?p=34038#comment-324817 “… could have been created during …” That does not not sound as assuring as the remainder of the text which takes these assumptions largely for granted. Isn’t it asking a bit much for an asteroid/meteorite to be thrown out into the asteroid belt, then being deflected back towards Earth and … actually hitting Earth and still be preserved? To hit Earth, from the asteroid belt, is about as likely as to hit a Florida golf hole with one stroke … from a golf court in California, surely? Reminds me a bit of “dating” some human remains based on just one tooth …

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