Chainpur vs Shergotty

Chainpur is an LL3.4 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell in India in 1907. Its low petrologic type indicates that it experienced relatively little thermal metamorphism on its parent body, allowing many chondrules and other early solar-system materials to remain distinct. Researchers study it as an unequilibrated ordinary chondrite, particularly for evidence about primitive solids, mineral chemi...

Shergotty is a basaltic Martian meteorite that fell near Sherghati, in present-day Bihar, India, in 1865. Its mineral composition, trapped gases, and other chemical evidence connect it to rocks ejected from Mars by an impact. The specimen gives its name to shergottites, the largest major group within the SNC Martian meteorites, and serves as an important reference for studying volcanic processes o...