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Making Sense of Meteorites

Classifying space rocks requires careful laboratory evaluation, followed by peer review.

Rhiannon Mayne, the Oscar and Juanita Monnig Endowed Chair of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, knows a meteorite when she sees one. But recognizing the dense, magnetic debris from space, which can date back 4.6 billion years, isn’t enough to call it a meteorite.

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