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Semarkona
Semarkona is an LL3.00 ordinary chondrite that fell near Semarkona, India, in 1940. Its minerals experienced exceptionally little thermal metamorphism on their parent asteroid, preserving chondrules, fine-grained material, and other evidence from the early solar system. Researchers use it to investigate primordial water, organic chemistry, magnetic fields, and the processes that formed the first s...
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Shergotty
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...
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