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November 07, 2016

Mars rover confirms 'Egg Rock' is fallen iron-nickel meteorite
Albuquerque (UPI) Nov 3, 2016
The Mars rover Curiosity has confirmed the identity of a small metallic globule, spotted last week by scientists in images captured by the rover's Mastcam. New chemical analysis suggests it is an iron-nickel meteorite. "The dark, smooth and lustrous aspect of this target, and its sort of spherical shape attracted the attention of some MSL scientists when we received the Mastcam images at the new location," Pierre-Yves Meslin, an astrophysicist at the National Center for Scientific Research in F ... read more

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