Meteorites
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 13 meteorites. These were found at various localities around the world. This collection contains some interesting meteorites. The most recent acquisition is a small slice of a stone meteorite, found at Dar al Gani in the Libyan desert in 1998. Its composition reveals that it is a piece of moon rock that was blasted from the lunar surface by a meteor impact. Another example is a piece of the Zagami stone meteorite, which came from Mars and fell on 3 October 1962. Iron meteorites include a large 30kg fragment of the Gibeon meteorite found in Namibia, and a piece of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, which created the well-known crater in Arizona, USA. The collection also includes tektites from Thailand and the Czech Republic, which are composed of natural glass formed from rock melted by meteorite impact. Meteorites are rocks found on Earth that have fallen from space. Sometimes they are seen falling through the atmosphere. There are three main types of meteorite – stone, iron and stony-iron. Most meteorites are fragments of asteroids but a small number come from the moon or mars.
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