[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

From: eric at meteoritesusa.com <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:47:05 -0700
Message-ID: <20120103174705.x8nfoyndcccss800_at_webmail.meteoritesusa.com>

I would like to clarify that I mean "attracted" to a magnet. Not
intrinsically magnetic itself, as in attracting metal objects.

Thanks for pointing out my mistake Greg! ;)

Eric


Quoting GREG LINDH <geeg48 at msn.com>:

>
>
> 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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