Martian meteorite
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A Martian meteorite is a rock that formed on Mars, was ejected from the planet by an impact event, and traversed interplanetary space before landing on Earth as a meteorite. As of September 2020, 277
Martian meteorite EETA79001, shergottite
Martian meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," weighs approximately 320 g (11 oz).
NWA 6963, a shergottite found in Morocco, September 2011.
Nakhla meteorite's two sides and its inner surfaces after breaking it
Allan Hills 84001
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Allan Hills 84001 is a fragment of a Martian meteorite that was found in the Allan Hills in Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of American meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. Like other
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…chemistry as well as oxygen isotopes revealed an unambiguous Martian origin and strong affinities with Chassigny." Among these, the famous specimen Allan Hills 84001 has a different rock type from other Martian meteorites: it is an orthopyroxenite (an igneous rock dominantly composed of orthopyroxene). For this…
Meteorite fragment ALH84001
ALH84001 on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Electron microscopy revealed chain structures resembling living organisms in meteorite fragment ALH84001