[meteorite-list] Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars

[AL Mitterling]

Hi Paul H. and all,

The first article has some mis-information. Farrington (Field Museum
Curator) was responsible for the discovery
of the Lafayette meteorite at Purdue U. They gave him the stone to add to
the Field collection. The Field later gave or traded the majority of the
specimen to the Smithsonian. It says 1980 is when it was sent to the Field
but Farrington obtained the specimen a long time before that.

The article also states the meteorite was ejected from Mars, but I don't
think that is quite correct. Rather an impact ejected material from Mars
and traveled as a meteoroid, and later fell as a meteor then meteorite on
Earth. I know it is kind of splitting hairs but the article writer lacked
proper knowledge on the subject.

I might add there was recently a search for students that attended the
college at that time to attempt to find which of them may have been the
Lafayette meteorite discoverer . Nininger stated in his notes (talking to
Farrington) that a black student was witness to the Lafayette fall. He was
fishing and heard the stone come down in the water where he was fishing. He
went over and retrieved the specimen, washing off the mud from the bank.
There are pictures of the four students, one may have been the student that
made the recovery.

Thanks for the articles!

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites


On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:27 PM Paul via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid
> water on Mars
> The 742-million-year-old rock was ejected into space by an asteroid impact.
> Andrew Paul, Popular Science, November 14, 2024
> https://www.popsci.com/science/mars-meteorite-found-in-drawer/
>
> Tremblay, M.M., Mark, D.F., Barfod, D.N., Cohen, B.E., Ickert, R.B., Lee,
> M.R.,
> Tomkinson, T. and Smith, C.L., 2024. Dating recent aqueous activity on
> Mars.
> Geochemical Perspectives Letters. open access
> https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2443/
> https://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/documents/GPL2443_SIonly.pdf
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
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