[meteorite-list] Question: shergottite ejection age

From: Bernd V. Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:49:28 +0000
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000006B00005BBA_at_10.0.100.101>

Buona sera Francesco,
Hi List,

> But these articles talk about 0.7 ? 0.3 My

Maybe they only considered EET 79001, which has indeed an ejection
age of 0.73 ? 0.15 Ma. But one look at the diagram (How old are they?)
in one of the sources you quoted* shows this is a "non-scientific"
generalization.

*http://www.imca.cc/mars/martian-meteorites.htm

Cheers,

Bernd
Received on Wed 06 Feb 2013 03:49:28 PM PST