[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:36:07 +0000
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000006D000032CE_at_10.0.100.101>

Eric inquired:

"Are Mars meteorites magnetic at all?"

Some of them are definitely attracted to a magnet!

One of these is Bob Verish's Los Angeles and when I held
a magnet to one my LAs, it readily jumped to the magnet!

See, for example:

COLLINSON D.W.(1997) Magnetic properties of Martian meteorites:
Implications for an ancient Martian magnetic field (Meteoritics 32-6, 1997, 803).

Best wishes for 2012,

Bernd
Received on Tue 03 Jan 2012 06:36:07 PM PST