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Shalka
Shalka is a diogenite meteorite that fell in Bihar, India, in 1850. Diogenites belong to the HED clan of differentiated achondrites and consist largely of magnesium-rich orthopyroxene, representing igneous material formed within the crust of a differentiated parent body. HED meteorites are commonly linked to asteroid 4 Vesta, making Shalka relevant to studies of deep crustal processes on that body...
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Kapoeta
Kapoeta is a howardite meteorite that fell in 1942 near Kapoeta, in the territory now belonging to South Sudan. Howardites are breccias made from mixed fragments of eucrite and diogenite material, recording impacts that excavated and recombined rocks from different levels of a differentiated asteroid's crust. Kapoeta is an extensively studied member of the HED meteorite clan, which is widely assoc...
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