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<blockquote data-quote="LONEWOLF" data-source="post: 672070" data-attributes="member: 6309"><p>Some info for you....</p><p>Why shouldn't you put a magnet on a meteorite?</p><p></p><p>The commonly used method for identifying space rocks can destroy scientific information. Touching even a small magnet to a meteorite <strong>can erase any record the rock might have retained about the magnetic field of its parent body</strong>, researchers report in the April Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.9 May 2023...</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencenews.org/article/magnets-meteorites-space#:~:text=The%20commonly%20used%20method%20for,Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Planets.[/URL]</p><p></p><p> LW...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LONEWOLF, post: 672070, member: 6309"] Some info for you.... Why shouldn't you put a magnet on a meteorite? The commonly used method for identifying space rocks can destroy scientific information. Touching even a small magnet to a meteorite [B]can erase any record the rock might have retained about the magnetic field of its parent body[/B], researchers report in the April Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.9 May 2023... [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.sciencenews.org/article/magnets-meteorites-space#:~:text=The%20commonly%20used%20method%20for,Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Planets.[/URL] LW... [/QUOTE]
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