[meteorite-list] Question: shergottite ejection age

Bernd V. Pauli bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
Wed Feb 6 15:49:28 EST 2013


Buona sera Francesco,
Hi List,

> But these articles talk about  0.7 ± 0.3 My

Maybe they only considered EET 79001, which has indeed an ejection
age of 0.73 ± 0.15 Ma. But one look at the diagram (How old are they?)
in one of the sources you quoted* shows this is a "non-scientific"
generalization.

*http://www.imca.cc/mars/martian-meteorites.htm

Cheers,

Bernd





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