The making of Martian meteorite Block Island

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May 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010mnras.404.1457b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 404, Issue 3, pp. 1457-1463.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Meteors, Meteoroids

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An analysis of the circumstances leading to the placement of the large iron meteorite, unofficially named Block Island, on Mars is presented. We investigate the possibility that Block Island fell during the late Noachian period on Mars when its atmosphere was much denser (and hence much more massive) than at the present time. Indeed, we find that in order to produce a non-crater-forming, non-fragmenting meteorite with the characteristics of Block Island, the surface pressure of the Martian atmosphere must have been at least one to two orders of magnitude larger than it is at the present epoch.

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