[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

[eric at meteoritesusa.com]

Thank you Bernd, Ruben, Simon and everyone for your on and offlist answers!

This is very interesting to say the least.

Eric




Quoting "Bernd V. Pauli" <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>:

> 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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