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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: SNC-Meteorite source (was Re^2: Cheap Mars Rocks)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.143609.5638@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Destructive Testing Systems
- References: <C0Kq8D.G8F@zoo.toronto.edu> <1993Jan11.070745.23686@mr.med.ge.com> <93011.111344K3032E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <1993Jan11.164332.9648@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:36:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.164332.9648@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Joe Cain) writes:
- >In article <93011.111344K3032E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET> <K3032E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET> writes:
- >>Nobody knows for sure how the SNC came from Mars to Earth,
- >...
- >>Sure enough, SNC's don't fall on Antarctica more often than on other
- >>continents. But unless you see it fall, Luna- and Mars-Meteorites are hard
- >>to distingush from terrest.rocks.
- >
- >Why has no one looked in Greenland?
-
- Over 100 feet of ice pack has formed since 1944 in Greenland. The P-38s
- recently recovered there were buried under 100 feet of ice. Anything
- that falls there quickly becomes buried deeply in the ice. In Antarctica,
- there are large areas where the annual snowfall is measured in fractional
- inches. So meteorites that fall there are easier to find without extensive
- drilling.
-
- Gary
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