Space rock on my mantlepiece

[Eric Siegerman]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:58:03PM +0000, M Holmes wrote:
> 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.

Completely uneducated guess, but ... maybe Mars takes a lot more
hits than the Moon, by virtue of being farther out -- oh, and
next door to the asteroid belt, too.

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The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so
many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to
represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.
        - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"