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Zagami
Zagami is a Martian basaltic shergottite meteorite that fell near Zagami, Nigeria, in 1962. The recovered stone weighed about 18 kilograms, making it one of the largest individual Martian meteorites known. Its igneous minerals and trapped gases have been studied as evidence of volcanic processes and atmospheric conditions on Mars, so it serves as an important reference sample for planetary scienti...
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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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