Hi List and Ron,
Ron Balk's "Mars Global Surveyor Images September 11-17, 2003"
email sent yesterday to meteorite-list has as allways, many interesting images
from Mars, but I would like to call your attention to the one under "Boulders on
Phobos (Released 16 Sept. 2003) http://www.msss.com/mars images/moc/2003/09/16/index.html
It shows a very interesting image taken by Mars Orbiter Camera, of a portion of
the surface of Phobos, one of the 2 moons of Mars; in this particular image, it
can be seen a large boulder "about 85 meter (~280 feet) in diameter" and there
is the following comment "most of the boulders may have been ejected from the
largest impact crater on Phobos, Stickney".
My question is: Would it be possible to find on Earth,
meteorites with an origin from Phobos (or the other moon Deimos)?
Or would the fragments be mainly gravitationally atracted by
Mars?
I suppose that other factors should be considered, such as the
angle and the velocity of the impactors on the moons?
José Campos
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- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos? Jose Campos
- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos? Philip R. Burns
- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos? Ron Baalke
- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos... Tom aka James Knudson
- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Ph... Ron Baalke
- Re: [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos? almitt
- [meteorite-list] meteorites from Phobos? Jose Campos