[meteorite-list] Mars: Rotten Rocks

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Feb 2 11:39:30 2005
Message-ID: <42010210.36206F35_at_bhil.com>

     Hi, List,

         What about the "rotten rocks"?
     <http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040615a.html>

         These stones seem to have retained their (presumably) hard
     outer crusts but have had their "insides" eroded away.
         Now, it occurs to me that a fusion crusted meteorite of a
     soft crumbly kind (type C?) might very well erode this way.
     The fused crust would stand up to wind and sand better than
     the soft interior.
         Anybody think we might be looking at another Martian
     meteorite?


     Sterling K. Webb
Received on Wed 02 Feb 2005 11:38:40 AM PST