[meteorite-list] Odds of finding a meteorite on Mars

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Sterling, didn't you hear?  The Strawberry  Fields home in the UK is getting 
closed, so they're clearly not forever.   So with all those slick names that 
are being dreamt up, Strawberry Fields on  Mars would be an appropiate tribute 
in my opinion and probably very appealing to  the Ad hoc nomenclature 
committee of martian geography.  And the  opportunity to wake up to Beatles (but no 
other Bugs) on Mars after the  search for nanoorganisms could be refreshing...

Now, if you really want  to know the scientific reason for the strawberry 
fields on Mars, statistically  they've found all these blueberry fields, and I 
think Mars is a more fun place  than Maine or New Jersey or whatever frigid 
place this time of year that has  blueberries at some point.

Also the Schiller Effect clearly would be  tilted to the pink and I am sure 
even the iridescent olivine in the Al Mablas'  there even would be 
preferentially glowing strawberry colored rainbows because  it is of course proper to 
discuss color in its ambient natural conditions -on  Mars.  Then again maybe 
someone knows what configuration of excited  d-orbitals in the Cromium, Vanadium 
would turn bright red in tektite glass after  all that ultraviolet absorption 
going on in Mars...it may be far away but I  haven't heard of any stratospheric 
ozone cloud filters on Mars.

Does that  get me off the hook or shall i continue:)  (No please don't answer 
that  except Sterling)  By the way i totally disagree that the rovers have 75 
to  100 meters of meteorite vision on Mars.  I think any listmenber could do  
better than a rover, and I am personally lucky to have 5 meters each way with 
 all those rocks around and a superior neck and rods and cones than the  
pancam...Though the rest of your post was great.  Just think, that poor  meteorite 
that NASA is giving the cold shoulder instead of spirit and  opportunity must 
really think Earth is invading (gracias H.G. & Walter and  soon Tom Cruise).  
It saw one Rover in its square field, so it must think  that there are about 
a thousand million Earth machines drilling holes in the  heads of all the 
rocks on mars...

En un mensaje con fecha 01/19/2005  12:31:05 AM Mexico Standard Time, 
kelly at bhil.com escribe:
And lastly, Doug,  I've got to ask! Why would Martian tektites be
strawberry pink??? Inquiring  minds want to know...