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Re: Mars again
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- Subject: Re: Mars again
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:03:16 GMT
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>As far as the two martian meteorites falling the same month and day could
>be be dealing in a double impact
>on Mars in two areas of the planet with simular orbits that happened to
>fall different years when things were right?? Just a thought, though I
>don't know how you could prove this other than cosmic exposure age while in
>orbit.
Chassigny has a cosmic ray age of about 10 million years. Zagami has a cosmic
ray age of about 2.5 million years. I think this rules out that they
came from a simultaneous double impact on Mars.
Ron Baalke
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