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Re: Martian Moon Phobos Hip-Deep In Powder
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- Subject: Re: Martian Moon Phobos Hip-Deep In Powder
- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:39:49 GMT
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I should point out that Phobos is highly suspected to be a captured C asteroid
in orbit around Mars. The spectroscopic analysis of Phobos
indicates that its composition is similar to that of carbonaceous chondrites.
However, other spectra matches has been found between carbonaceous
chondrites and other C asteroids in the main asteroid belt, so
it is very difficult to associate a specific carbonaceous meteorite to a
specific asteroid, or for that matter, to associate any particular
carbonaceous meteorite to Phobos. The new images of Phobos are awesome,
so take a look!
Ron Baalke
> The new Phobos images and thermal spectrometer measurements
>are available on the Internet at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov,
>http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov, http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/,
>http://www.msss.com/ and at http://emma.la.asu.edu .
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