[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

Bernd V. Pauli bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
Tue Jan 3 18:36:07 EST 2012


Eric inquired:

"Are Mars meteorites magnetic at all?"

Some of them are definitely attracted to a magnet!

One of these is Bob Verish's Los Angeles and when I held
a magnet to one my LAs, it readily jumped to the magnet!

See, for example:

COLLINSON D.W.(1997) Magnetic properties of Martian meteorites:
Implications for an ancient Martian magnetic field (Meteoritics 32-6, 1997, 803).

Best wishes for 2012,

Bernd





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