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1 - A METEORITE SCULPTED BY ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY
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A METEORITE SCULPTED BY ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY FORMED CIRCA 4.56 BILLION YEARS B.P. H5 chondrite, retaining a deep black fusion crust, with pronounced regmaglypts and sculptural form 11.6cm wide, 791g Provenance: Recovered in Erfoud, Morocco, in 2001; subsequently part of the Robert Elliot Meteorite Collection, United Kingdom. The present specimen bears the marks of its passage through the Earth's atmosphere, with a deep black fusion crust formed as its outer surface melted and rapidly cooled, and characteristic regmaglypts, the shallow, thumbprint-like depressions produced by the erosion of its surface during its fall.
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