Interestingly, the
spacecraft in question appears to have been a
Venera lander (a mission to
Venus) that failed to leave parking orbit. More
info, including (highly
critical) comments if this was the source of the
Kecksburg bolide, can be
found at:
S... it now appears possible the USA
A little off the subject but was up early thinking about this. The Russians did eventually land on Venus and got atmospheric isotope %. Been reading about NWA011 age ~2GY? O isotopes seem wrong but the age would be about right. Why probably ot that one,Venus still has activce volcanos thus
Of Howard Wu
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list]
Cosmos 96/Kecksburg-Venus Question
A little off the subject
but was up early thinking about this. The Russians did eventually land on Venus
and got atmospheric isotope %. Been reading
Theorectically how much more difficult would it be for a Venusian to find
it's way to earth?
Venus' thick atmosphere makes it extremely more difficult.
What would we expect in a Venunsian basalt meteorite or why haven't any been
identified?
The problem with NWA011 is there is so much
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