Space rock on my mantlepiece

[Alien Dream]

it is because the moon is made of cheese right? Lunar cheese melts faster
than Martian rock   :-}


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Halligan" <blackblade at BHALLIGAN.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: Space rock on my mantlepiece


>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.
>
> Perhaps Moon rocks are harder for the average person to identify as
> "otherworldly" and therefore fewer are brought to the attention of
> those who study meteorites?
>
> Brian
>