[meteorite-list] Meteorites on Mars Paper?

Ron Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Jan 20 12:59:00 EST 2005


In this article, there is a reference to a paper by Alex Brevan in 2000 about
predicting meteorites on Mars. Does anyone know what paper this is?

Ron Baalke

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/Ah-the-irony--meteorite-found-on-Mars/2005/01/20/1106110882397.html

[snip]

"It does look like an iron meteorite," agreed Alex Bevan, a meteorite 
scientist at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.

Two British scientists published a paper in 2000 predicting small 
meteorites, weighing 10 to 50 grams, would be relatively common on 
Mars.

However, Dr Bevan said the Martian atmosphere was so thin that one 
as big as a basketball should have hit the surface at great speed, 
risking disintegration and blasting out a crater.  

But the object found by Opportunity appeared to be intact. "It's 
quite remarkable," he said.





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