meteorites

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1. Objects from outside the Earth that enter the Earth's field of gravitation and fall to the Earth's surface. Meteors, on the other hand, are objects from space that burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Meteorites are bodies that are left over from the time when the planets formed, and therefore give us clues about the formation of the solar system.

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Scientists have long studied amino acids in carbon rich meteorites, including the well known Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969.

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One possibility is that meteorites striking Mars delivered organic material to the surface.

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They evaluated long-term exposure to cosmic rays, changes during magma evolution, and contamination from meteorites.

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The huge specimen weighing more than 2.5 tonnes is believed to have come from the Aletai meteorite, one of the largest known iron meteorites on Earth, it said.

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The findings also help scientists identify where these meteorites came from and support planning for future space missions and resource extraction technologies.

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