[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:49:20 -0700
Message-ID: <BLU125-W3B508991882454295ED64C9960_at_phx.gbl>

 
  Hi Bernd,
 
  I meant to address this email to you and not to Eric. So here it is again.
 
  I have always wondered why people here on the List, keep referring to some meteorites as being "magnetic". To me, being magnetic means having the properties of a magnet. There are no meteorites that natually attract iron, so why are they described as being "magnetic"? Am I wrong?
 
 
  Regards,
 
  Greg L.
 
 



> From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:36:07 +0000
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?
>
> 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
>
>
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