How about a meteoroid hitting the Martian atmosphere at an almost parallel trajectory? A "Mars grazer". Could that extend it's flight and ablation time to produce the dramatic regmaglypts?
Bill -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Gerald Flaherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ron and List > I was thinking(and quite frankly allowing my imagination free reign)? If the > meteorite fell when Mars had a thick enough (and I'm not sure how thick is > thick. Those scienists among us might like to quantify those parameters) to > produce those classic regamglypts, this object might have fallen tens or > hundreds of millions of years ago. > If a thicker atmosphere is necessary to produce the spectatular thumb > prints, this same thicker atmosphere would also weather the object and > reduce some of the marvelous relief shown in the photos as is the case on > earth. > This year's research has admirably identified "rivers of H20", maybe seas > and .....(who knows... tsunamis??) on the Red Planet. > Should we think that the meteorite fell cooincidently, at the cusp of the > transition between thick and thin atmosphere and was thus spared some of the > worst erosion? Or that perhaps the transition from thick to thin was even an > abrupt phenomenon.(a warning message from our late neighbors in space WATCH > THOSE EMMISIONS EARTHLINGS! ... uhmm huma ha ha ha a-a-a!!! > Jerry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:03 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Opportunity Rover Finds a Meteorite > > > >> > >> > >> And, Ron, didn't one of the Rovers actually image a meteor earlier in > >> the mission? > >> > > > > Yes, it did. > > > > Ron > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
