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Nakhla
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite that fell near El Nakhla El Bahariya in Egypt on 28 June 1911. It is the type specimen for nakhlites, igneous rocks dominated by clinopyroxene that crystallized from magma on Mars and were later launched into space by an impact. Secondary minerals and alteration feature...
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The top alternative to Nakhla in 2026 is ALH84001 with a score of 9.2/10, followed by Tissint (9.2) and EETA79001 (9.1).
ALH84001
ALH 84001 is a roughly 4.1-billion-year-old Martian orthopyroxenite meteorite found in Antarctica's Allan Hills in 1984....
Tissint
Tissint is a Martian shergottite whose fall was witnessed in southern Morocco in July 2011, with fragments recovered fro...
EETA79001
Elephant Moraine A79001, commonly abbreviated EETA79001, is a Martian shergottite discovered in Antarctica in 1979. Glas...
Shergotty
Shergotty is a basaltic Martian meteorite that fell near Sherghati, in present-day Bihar, India, in 1865. Its mineral co...
Zagami
Zagami is a Martian basaltic shergottite meteorite that fell near Zagami, Nigeria, in 1962. The recovered stone weighed...
Chassigny
Chassigny is a Martian meteorite that fell near Chassigny, France, in 1815. It is composed predominantly of olivine-rich...
Lafayette
Lafayette is a nakhlite, a type of igneous meteorite identified as originating on Mars. It was recognized in the collect...
NWA 2737
NWA 2737 is a Martian meteorite found in Northwest Africa in 2000 and classified as a chassignite, a rare subgroup of th...
Yamato 000593
Yamato 000593 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Yamato Mountains and classified as a nakhlite, one of the...
QUE94201
QUE 94201 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Queen Alexandra Range during the 1994 field season. It is cla...
Dar al Gani 476
Martian shergottite found in Libya in 1998, among the first Martian meteorites recovered from the Libyan Sahara and nota...
Yamato 793605
Nakhlite Martian meteorite collected in the Yamato Mountains, Antarctica during a Japanese expedition in 1979, notable f...
Dhofar 019
Martian basaltic shergottite found in the Dhofar region of Oman in 2000, notable for a young crystallization age of appr...
Governador Valadares
Nakhlite Martian meteorite found in Minas Gerais, Brazil in 1958, one of the few Martian meteorites discovered outside p...
NWA 480
NWA 480 is a lunar mare basalt meteorite found in Northwest Africa around 2000, extending knowledge of the Moon's volcan...
Sayh al Uhaymir 005
Sayh al Uhaymir 005 is a Martian meteorite found in Oman in 1999 and classified as an olivine-phyric shergottite, a basa...
NWA 856
NWA 856 is a Martian meteorite classified as a basaltic shergottite, discovered in Northwest Africa around 2001. As a sh...
Dar al Gani 489
Meteorite found in the Dar al Gani region of Libya, one of hundreds of specimens recovered from this prolific North Afri...
NWA 7042
Meteorite from Northwest Africa, part of the extensive catalogued collection of specimens recovered by prospectors from...
Ramlat as Sahmah 298
Meteorite found in the Ramlat as Sahmah sand sea of Oman, one of many specimens recovered from the Arabian Peninsula reg...
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