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Lafayette
Lafayette is a nakhlite, a type of igneous meteorite identified as originating on Mars. It was recognized in the collection of Purdue University in Indiana by 1931, although the circumstances and date of its arrival on Earth remain uncertain. Studies of alteration minerals within it, including clay and carbonate phases, have provided evidence that its Martian parent rock interacted with liquid wat...
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QUE94201
QUE 94201 is a Martian meteorite recovered in Antarctica's Queen Alexandra Range during the 1994 field season. It is classified as a basaltic shergottite, a type of igneous rock ejected from Mars by an impact and later delivered to Earth. Laboratory studies have placed its crystallization at roughly 327 million years ago, making it a comparatively young Martian volcanic rock used by planetary scie...
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