Meteroids and Meteorites
- Chondrite Meteorite
- Allan Hills, Antarctica
- About 4.55 billion years old (as old as the solar system)
- Achondrite Meteorite
- Reckling Peak, Antarctica
- Basaltic composition.
- Formed when an asteroid melted about 4.5 billion years ago.
- Iron Meteorite
- Derrick Peak, Antarctica
- Mostly iron and nickel.
- Martian Meteorite
- Elephant Moraine, Antarctica
- Contains air pockets with air very much like air measured on Mars by Viking.
- Vesta Meteorite
- Part of the asteroid Vesta.
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