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Some Meteorite Information

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  • Identifying meteorites
  • Lunar meteorites

Meteorology is not the same as meteoritics

...and meteorologists are not meteoriticists

The root of both words has to do with atmospheric phenomena.


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Prepared by: Randy L. Korotev

Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu

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