[Rockhounds] Hand magnets used by amateurs to test meteorites can damage them.

[Paul]

Testing the damage hand magnets

used by amateurs do to meteorites

Bob Yirka, PhysOrg, March 11, 2023

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-magnets-amateurs-meteorites.html

The paper is:

Vervelidou, F., Weiss, B.P. and Lagroix,

F., 2022. Hand magnets and the

destruction of ancient meteorite magnetism.

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets,

p.e2022JE007464.

PDF of preprint

https://d197for5662m48.cloudfront.net/documents/publicationstatus/100193/preprint_pdf/1778a5786893d0294c6efbeac6faf4b4.pdf

Official abstract

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022JE007464

Yours,

Paul H.