[meteorite-list] RE: Meteorites ~ Deep-Freeze on Mars

[AL Mitterling]

Hi Pete,


In regards to finding Martian locations related to Martian Meteorites,
Actually on August 4th 1998 such a report was made by Dr. Lipschultz 
from Purdue University. I'll just give the link but give a brief 
description here.

Six areas have been determined (with a good degree of certainty) that 
are probable source regions that may have delivered Meteorites from 
Mars. This was based on 15 volatile trace elements. I might add that the 
suspect areas all have craters that could be the launch impact area of 
the Martian Meteorites we hold in our collections.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/9808.Lipschutz.meteorite.html

--AL Mitterling


Pete Pete wrote:


> I know that Lunar meteorites can be identified as to the general area of 
> origin, including areas from the far side of the moon, but I haven't 
> read any information about meteorites from Mars in this respect.
> 
>
> Cheers,
> Pete