[meteorite-list] Opportunity Rover Finds an Iron Meteorite on Mars

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Way to go press folks Ms. Gretchen deserves a  congratulations...for an 
honest assessment..., now I would say meteorites are  getting the respect they 
deserve, and the press releases are ore in touch with  reality of meteorites!!
saludos, Doug

En un mensaje con fecha  01/19/2005 5:41:19 PM Mexico Standard Time, 
baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov  escribe:
"This is a huge surprise, though maybe it shouldn't have
been,"  said Dr. Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca,
N.Y., principal  investigator for the science instruments on
Opportunity and its twin,  Spirit.

"I never thought we would get to use our instruments on a
rock  from someplace other than Mars," Squyres said.  "Think
about where an  iron meteorite comes from: a destroyed planet
or planetesimal that was big  enough to differentiate into a
metallic core and a rocky mantle."