[meteorite-list] RE: Meteorites ~ Deep-Freeze on Mars

From: AL Mitterling <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 23 23:57:47 2005
Message-ID: <42E311B6.2020707_at_kconline.com>

Hi Pete,


In regards to finding Martian locations related to Martian Meteorites,
Actually on August 4th 1998 such a report was made by Dr. Lipschultz
from Purdue University. I'll just give the link but give a brief
description here.

Six areas have been determined (with a good degree of certainty) that
are probable source regions that may have delivered Meteorites from
Mars. This was based on 15 volatile trace elements. I might add that the
suspect areas all have craters that could be the launch impact area of
the Martian Meteorites we hold in our collections.

http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/9808.Lipschutz.meteorite.html

--AL Mitterling


Pete Pete wrote:


> I know that Lunar meteorites can be identified as to the general area of
> origin, including areas from the far side of the moon, but I haven't
> read any information about meteorites from Mars in this respect.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Pete
Received on Sat 23 Jul 2005 11:57:42 PM PDT