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	<title>Comments on: Found on a Martian Field: A Whomping Big Meteorite</title>
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		<title>By: Ron Bennett</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ron Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description>Here are color images of the meteor I made from JPL raw images:

http://picasaweb.google.com/shineinnovations/NEWMarsOpportunityColorImages#5365820819402997378

Over 1,200 personally made color images are at the same site from the MER rovers, (Opportunity and Spirit), including more images of the meteor available to the public.

Here is a time-lapse movie from Opportunities Microscopic Imager of what looks like a salty briny drip coming off the meteor and another rock, notice the second time-lapse image a small spherical object, Blueberry,  is moving pushing what looks like a salty brine over the edge?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6C0PM7mYE 

I think the meteor was orbiting Mars came in at a low angle just above the horizon and made this crater that Opportunity imaged right before finding it. 

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Bwtl2LFFFQE/SmkPpvMP1gI/AAAAAAAABeQ/DF8MMHAgjAc/s720/1P301298841EL5M1.555.jpg

If you can draw a line from the center of the deepest end of that crater through the center of the sloped end then find the meteor directly in line and on the same side as the sloped area then we at least may have a match of where it landed before bouncing out.

If the shallow crater was made by that meteor then my hope is that it got knocked off of one of the Martian moons, that&#039;s a long shot but a major find if true...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here are color images of the meteor I made from JPL raw images:</p>
<p><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/shineinnovations/NEWMarsOpportunityColorImages#5365820819402997378" rel="nofollow">http://picasaweb.google.com/shineinnovations/NEWMarsOpportunityColorImages#5365820819402997378</a></p>
<p>Over 1,200 personally made color images are at the same site from the MER rovers, (Opportunity and Spirit), including more images of the meteor available to the public.</p>
<p>Here is a time-lapse movie from Opportunities Microscopic Imager of what looks like a salty briny drip coming off the meteor and another rock, notice the second time-lapse image a small spherical object, Blueberry,  is moving pushing what looks like a salty brine over the edge?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6C0PM7mYE" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY6C0PM7mYE</a> </p>
<p>I think the meteor was orbiting Mars came in at a low angle just above the horizon and made this crater that Opportunity imaged right before finding it. </p>
<p><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Bwtl2LFFFQE/SmkPpvMP1gI/AAAAAAAABeQ/DF8MMHAgjAc/s720/1P301298841EL5M1.555.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Bwtl2LFFFQE/SmkPpvMP1gI/AAAAAAAABeQ/DF8MMHAgjAc/s720/1P301298841EL5M1.555.jpg</a></p>
<p>If you can draw a line from the center of the deepest end of that crater through the center of the sloped end then find the meteor directly in line and on the same side as the sloped area then we at least may have a match of where it landed before bouncing out.</p>
<p>If the shallow crater was made by that meteor then my hope is that it got knocked off of one of the Martian moons, that&#8217;s a long shot but a major find if true&#8230;</p>
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