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Rock is among the oldest known from the planet and matches findings from NASA rovers. 
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An expedition to the Moroccan desert has recovered fragments of a meteorite seen blazing across the sky on 18 July 2011. Analyses of those pieces, from a meteorite dubbed Tissint after a village in the region where the stones landed, reveal that the parent object had been blasted from Mars long ago.
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In the early morning of July 18th, 2011, something unusual happened in eastern Morocco. The sky lit up, glowing and changing colors. They couldn’t possibly have known it at the time, but a few well-placed nomads were experiencing something that’s only happened a handful of times in recorded history: they were witnessing the terrestrial arrival of a piece of Mars.
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An Englishman working in Chile has launched what is believed to be the first wine aged with a meteorite formed during the birth of the solar system.
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Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in nature may have come from space, a study shows. Via mei
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust avalanches around impact craters on Mars appear to be the result of the shock wave preceding the actual impact, according to a study led by an undergraduate student at the UA.
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Join Dr. Philipp Heck and his team at the Field Museum's Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies in their quest for presolar grains - cosmic stardust older than our Solar System!
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One religious statue has a stronger connection than most to the heavens. An 11th-century carving from Mongolia of the Buddhist god Vaiśravana was fashioned from a meteorite fragment, a chemical analysis shows. Its extraterrestrial origins make it unique in both religious art and meteorite science.
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Hundreds of Meteorites Uncovered in Antarctica | ANSMET Meteorite Hunters | Antarctic Science...
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A mineral once found only on the moon has now been discovered in billion-year-old rocks in Australia. Tranquillityite is a mineral consisting of iron, zirconium, yttrium, titanium, silicon and oxygen. It is named after the moon's Sea of Tranquility, where it was first discovered on the Apollo 11 mission. Until now, it was only seen in samples returned from the moon, as well as in lunar meteorites — that is, rocks blasted off the moon's surface by cosmic impacts that crash-landed here. Now scientists have identified what appear to be terrestrial versions of tranquillityite in Western Australia
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October 17, 2014 12:35 AM
Wow, moon rocks inside Earth rocks. Science rocks!
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When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights.
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A new model predicts the seismic activity on Earth after a major meteorite collision. If a huge meteorite strikes the planet, the results could be disastrous.
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