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Re: Martian Meteorite
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- Subject: Re: Martian Meteorite
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 23:49:12 GMT
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>>"Now why there are more 'Mars' meteorites than Moon
meteorites..."
>I was under the impression that there were 12 confirmed SNCs and 13
>confirmed lunar meteorites (including Del al Gani 262). With another season
>in Antarctica, the numbers may have changed again.
That is correct. There are currently more Moon meteorites than there are
Mars meteorites. I think the intent in the original post was to point
out there should be significently more lunar meteorites than Mars meteorites,
which is true. However, I don't think you can make any statistically
significent conclusions until the sample sizes are much bigger than 12 or 13.
I personally believe there are more Mars and lunar meteorites around
in existing collections that have not been identified as such yet. Witness
ALH84001, that was initially misidentified as a diogenite.
Ron Baalke
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