> Something tells me the NomCom would waive the type specimen requirement.
Probably in a unanimous decision! :-) It may be a meteorite on Mars, and this would be exciting news, but on the other hand Opportunity is just crossing a field of leftovers from its entry, descent and landing system, and couldn�t this be nothing but another little fragment, though very strange with such an almost natural optical appearance at first glance? Time (and most of all a closer analysis) will tell... By the way: on the official NASA pages I am missing the mission groundtracks superimposed on high res pictures of the landing sites for both robots, which, on a much earlier occasion, were so exciting to look at when the detailed mission press reports were released by NASA for the Apollo missions in the early Seventies. Both Mars robots travelled exciting paths so far, several mi/km long, but why is such a groundtrack view superimposed on high resolution landscape photography missing on the NASA websites? Ron Baalke? (..Or have I overlooked something?). Alex Berlin/Germany ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
