Properties and distribution of paired candidate stony meteorites at Meridiani Planum, Mars

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Schröder, Christian ^a,b   Herkenhoff, Kenneth E ^c   Farrand, William H ^d   Chappelow, John E ^e   Wang, Wei ^f   Nittler, Larry R ^g   Ashley, James W ^h   Fleischer, Iris ⁱ   Gellert, Ralf ^j   Golombek, Matthew P ^k   Johnson, Jeffrey R ^c   Klingelhöfer, Gstar ⁱ   Li, Ron ^f   Morris, Richard V ^l   Squyres, Steven W ^m  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Center for Exoplanetary Systems   (United States)

^e SAGA Inc   (United States)

^f The Ohio State University   (United States)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^m Space Sciences Bldg ^*  (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; IRON METEORITE; MARS; METEORITE; MINERALOGY; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; STONY METEORITE;

EID: 78249254210     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003616     Document Type: Article

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