[meteorite-list] Meteorites on Mars Paper?

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jan 20 12:59:12 2005
Message-ID: <200501201759.JAA01949_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

In this article, there is a reference to a paper by Alex Brevan in 2000 about
predicting meteorites on Mars. Does anyone know what paper this is?

Ron Baalke

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/Ah-the-irony--meteorite-found-on-Mars/2005/01/20/1106110882397.html

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"It does look like an iron meteorite," agreed Alex Bevan, a meteorite
scientist at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.

Two British scientists published a paper in 2000 predicting small
meteorites, weighing 10 to 50 grams, would be relatively common on
Mars.

However, Dr Bevan said the Martian atmosphere was so thin that one
as big as a basketball should have hit the surface at great speed,
risking disintegration and blasting out a crater.

But the object found by Opportunity appeared to be intact. "It's
quite remarkable," he said.
Received on Thu 20 Jan 2005 12:59:00 PM PST