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Salad55 t1_iydwlzz wrote

Reply to comment by MacBash in Somalia meteorite: Joy as scientists find two new minerals by miso25

They tell us where it’s from

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MacBash t1_iydxgdm wrote

Thank you. Somehow I was not sure.

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frognettle t1_iye88iq wrote

I found that "All meteorites come from inside our solar system. Most of them are fragments of asteroids that broke apart long ago in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Such fragments orbit the Sun for some time–often millions of years–before colliding with Earth."

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rocketsocks t1_iyeupqg wrote

There are almost certainly interstellar meteorites, but they are probably exceedingly rare, and none have been identified yet, per se.

There's a much larger flux of space dust which lands on Earth, which can leave behind micro-meteorites, some of that dust is of interstellar origin.

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