[meteorite-list] Are Mars Meteorites Magnetic?

From: eric at meteoritesusa.com <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:42:54 -0700
Message-ID: <20120103174254.2rll79qaokwwgokg_at_webmail.meteoritesusa.com>

Thank you Bernd, Ruben, Simon and everyone for your on and offlist answers!

This is very interesting to say the least.

Eric




Quoting "Bernd V. Pauli" <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>:

> 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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Received on Tue 03 Jan 2012 07:42:54 PM PST


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