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Benld
Benld is an H6 ordinary chondrite meteorite that fell near Benld in Macoupin County, Illinois, on September 29, 1938. A fragment penetrated the roof of a garage and struck a parked automobile, making the fall notable as a documented case of a meteorite damaging human property. Its H6 classification identifies it as an iron-rich ordinary chondrite whose minerals were substantially altered and equil...
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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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