Evgeny Dmitriev, Russian comet researcher meteorites believes that the study of finds made by the rover Curiosity will help to make a number of fundamental scientific discoveries, related, strange as it may seem, not only with Mars, but also with the nature of comets.
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Studying by Dmitriev of pseudo-meteorites falling to Earth (11 falls and 6 finds) and tektites showed that they are in composition and nature of origin, as well as the mechanism of destruction in the atmosphere and the loss of fragments are very different from well-known meteorites. He believes that the studied objects come from comets having eruptive nature of origin. This allowed the scientist to designate a new direction in science called comet meteorics (see “Extraterrestrial life … found on Earth”, TM, No. 3, 2010). At the same time skeletal remains were found in some comet meteorites extraterrestrial primitive marine animals named streamers.
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Streamer – skeletal remains of extraterrestrial primitive sea animals. Streamerglass isolated from Nizhny Novgorod tektites, Chukreev pumice, soil samples of the Tunguska accident region, ionessite-siltstone (Krasnoturan fall) and shaturite (Shatursky fall, about 10,000 years ago).
It is completely natural to assume that such objects fell not only to Earth, but also to Mars and other celestial bodies. IN accreditation process, Mars was able to acquire a powerful primary atmosphere, he began to look more like a giant planet (see “Martian Mega-Tunguska and the Evolution of the Planets”, TM, No. 6, 2007). However, the intense stellar wind of the young Sun began to blow it away the atmosphere. During this period, Mars encountered a large high-speed a celestial body that exploded in his atmosphere, like Tunguska meteorite, at an altitude of 2500 km above the North Pole the planet. Strong shock waves, like heavy rinks, passed through surface of the northern part of Mars, which led to a decrease in relief and dichotomy of the planet. Over time, due to its small size, Mars could not hold a powerful atmosphere and gradually lost it. Not possessing tectonic activity and intense atmospheric processes, peculiar to the Earth, and also, having no seas, the Red Planet in largely retained its original appearance. For past billions of its surface layers were saturated with fallen fragments asteroids and comets.
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These stones lying on the surface of Mars may be cometary meteorites. Since the upper layers of Mars basically have very ancient origin preserved from the moment of graduation the formation of the planet, so these stones should not be associated with geological environment.
And now the moment of truth is coming – the Curiosity rover help solve the problem of the origin of comets! According to Dmitriev, any find of Curiosity must be viewed through a prism comet meteorics, since (artifact) may belong as Mars, and comet meteorites. Kinship with classic meteorites
easy to install – their “genetics” is well understood. More difficult identify comet meteorites, because they are similar in composition to substance of the earth’s crust, and the temptation is great to classify them as Martian breeds.
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The first stone investigated by Curiosity with X-ray spectrometer. Reminds feldspar – there are many potassium and sodium; and little magnesium and iron. It looks like it is comet meteorite, since its chemical composition is very characteristic for most investigated cometary fragments.
However, now there are results of primary studies of cometary meteorites and even their classification is made, so it’s easy will conduct a comparative analysis, especially since part of the samples contains inclusions of native metals – indicators of space substances, and some meteorites have no analogues at all terrestrial rocks. If the Mars rover Curiosity detects comet meteorites and skeletal remains of marine animals, then Mars will become the second a planet on which there is physical evidence of two basic principles of comet meteoritics. The first is comets like this It is considered that they are not remnants of the pre-planet cloud and contain the oldest substance in the solar system, and are products of eruptions (emissions) from celestial bodies, located in the systems of giant planets Second – comets are the main distributors of life in the universe. (http://bourabai.narod.ru/dmitriev/works.htm)
Arsentiev Korney. Will the Mars rover solve the comet riddle? Curiosity? // Technology youth, 2013, No. 2, p. 42-43.
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