Martian Meteorite 4925

Very cool clip of an actual piece of Martian rock taken with a Celestron Digital Microscope. The piece was found in 2007 in North West Africa, purchased by the major mass holder in Morocco and now in limited quantities for sale across the world.

Only 50 known Martian meteorites found to date, extremely rare. Martian rocks end up on Earth after the Martian surface is bombarded by an asteroid/comet sending the planet's rock faster then it's escape velocity into space to be captured by the Earths gravity to land on our planet, to be found and sold on places like eBay, very cool.

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Science & Technology

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• Meteorites
• Martian
• Celestron
• Digital
• Microscope

[boba5555]

Planets have their own isotopic signature, with all the probes they have sent to Mars, such as the voyagers and rovers they have a pretty good idea what a Martian rock is made up of.

So once they have found out it is a Martian rock the only theory they have come up with how it gets here is through another meteorite colliding with Mars, wild, thanks for dropping by.

[boba5555]

Hi y08y, it does sound far fetched doesn't it, I think what happens someone finds a meteorite that has fallen, sells it to a buyer, now in North West Africa usually meteor hunters and they know contacts, buyers and such.

The buyer or major mass holder takes it to official sources, universities and the like, the officials for a piece of the meteorite will classify it and do research on it, this is where they study the actual isotopes and the mineral breakdown to find out where it came from.

[GOPHATESAMERICA]

if this is a meteroite I bet it is non-martian..

[y08y]

And then to think that the rocks don't burn under that speed and pressure and manage to overcome Mars gravity and have enough speed to leave Mars' orbit (about 10,000km/hr!! on Earth as far as I can remember) then coincidentally end up on a planet like ours at least 35 million miles away, then by coincidence don't burn up in the atmosphere and then by accident are found by someone who also recognizes it as a "Mars" stone. Oh yeah, they only found 50, right. C'monget serioussigh

[y08y]

Sure and they can prove that it comes from Mars...sigh. I also doubt that any comet or asteroid can send rocks back into space, especially considering that Mars gravity is as close is Earth's and that rocks will always leave the the surface under a steep angle and never straight up, so ot means that they have to travel even more to leave the surface. Without any scientific proof I have strong doubts.