NASA explains Meteors and Meteorites

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This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon." Lebanon is about 2 yards or 2 meters wide (left to right, from this angle). The smaller piece in the foreground is called "Lebanon B." Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS/MSSS

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NASA explains Meteors and Meteorites

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