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Re: halite in Monahans
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- Subject: Re: halite in Monahans
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:37:26 GMT
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>>Add Ganymede and Callisto to the list. Galileo has recently found
>>evidence that a liquid ocean may have existed on those moons as well.
>Ron, this is great! To even think that the Monahans meteorite could have
>come from those places is unbelivable!
There is no direct evidence that Monahans came from any of the moons
of Jupiter. It is far more likely it came from an asteroid. The probability
of any material coming from any of the moons of Jupiter is extremely
small because of Jupiter's immense gravity.
Ron Baalke
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