[meteorite-list] Impact Event On Mars In 1951?

From: Mark Langenfeld <mlangen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:13:09 2004
Message-ID: <200304241555.h3OFtb8U097446_at_mail0.mx.voyager.net>

Has the impact area been imaged by any of the cameras in orbit around
Mars? If so, what do they show?

Mark

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> --Abstract Published in Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences
> (MAPS) 37(7), supplement, p.A122, 2002.
>
> A SMALL IMPACT EVENT ON MARS IN 1951
> M.C.L.Rocca
> Mendoza 2779-16A,
> Ciudad de Buenos Aires,
> Argentina (1428DKU), maxrocca_at_hotmail.com
>
> Introduction: Any meteoroid impacting into the thin atmosphere of
> Mars penetrates deeper than into the denser Earth atmosphere. As a rule,
> meteoroids bigger than 1 meter in size hit the martian surface.
> Objects with the size of about 0.1 - 1.0 meters explode high in the
> martian atmosphere creating intense blast waves and light flashes.
> Those superbolide events have a luminous efficiency higher than at the
> Earth [1], [2]. As part of a search in old scientific publications one
> superbolide-impact event on Mars has come to light. It was reported by
> the japanese astronomer Tsuneo Saheki, at Osaka Planetarium. He used a
> 8-inch reflector, at 400x. The event occurred on December 8, 1951.
>
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