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Some Meteorite Information

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  • Identifying meteorites
  • Lunar meteorites

If you found it along a railroad track, then it is not a meteorite

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Things fall off trains, like coal, ore, and other stuff.


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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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