having been "rotating around the sun" for 16 billion years, (ejected from Mars' surface from an asteroid hit).
Then it "came into the gravitational pull of the earth" and ended up in Antarctica, (on the surface, I assume), 13,000 years ago, according to scientists.
Now all this rhetoric regarding "how it got here" is what I question.
The escape velocity (to have an object escape the gravitational pull of gravity) of the earth is about 17,000 miles per hour. It takes one helluva propulsion system to accomplish this.
Mars. being of much less mass/gravity requires about 40% less than that, say 8,000 mph escape velocity.
I cannot/willnot believe that an asteroid kicking up some rocks on Mars can result in those rocks being propelled into space at 8,000 mph (unless someone can prove to me with some viable figures to support such a theory).
There is nothing to prove that ALH84001 DID NOT come from the asteroid belt- between Mars & Jupiter.
Escape velocity needs answer.
2006-11-05
03:29:30
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charly
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