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Fall days of the SNC meteorites - Evidence for an SNC meteoroid stream, and a common site of originFour of the SNC meteorites of putative Martian origin are falls. Two of these fell on October 3: Chassigny in 1815 and Zagami in 1962. The probability of this coincidence arising from random fall days is approximately 1 in 60. If this coincidence is not the result of chance, it suggests that some of the SNC meteorites are derived from a meteoroid stream. In that Chassigny and Zagami span nearly the full range of SNC lithologies and histories, the coincidence of fall days is consistent with suggestions that all of the SNCs came from a single site (impact crater) on their parent planet.
Document ID
19920049583
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Treiman, Allan H.
(NASA Johnson Space Center; National Research Council Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: Meteoritics
Volume: 27
ISSN: 0026-1114
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
92A32207
Distribution Limits
Public
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