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Some Meteorite Information

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  • Identifying meteorites
  • Lunar meteorites

If it contains a pattern that radiates from the center, then it is not a meteorite

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Note that none of these rocks has a fusions crust.
Some of these things may be marcasite, not pyrite. Both minerals are iron sulfides.

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Prepared by: Randy L. Korotev

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

e-mail: korotev@wustl.edu

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