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The Shergotty meteorite is the first example of the shergottite Mars meteorite
Mars meteorite

A Mars meteorite is a meteorite that has landed on Earth and originated from Mars . This could have been the result of an impact of a celestial body on Mars, sending material from Mars into space....
 family.

The Shergotty meteorite, a 4 kg martian meteorite, fell on Earth on Shergotty
Sherghati

See...
, Gaya
Gaya

Gaya may refer to:*Gaya Confederacy, an ancient Korean league of statelets*Gaya District, India*Gaya, India, a city in India*Gaya, Niger, a city in Niger...
, Bihar
Bihar

Bihar is a States and territories of India in East India. Bihar is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size 38,202 square mile and 3rd largest by population....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 on August 25, 1865 and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. This meteorite is relatively young, calculated to have been formed in Mars only 165 million years ago from volcanic origin. It is composed mostly of pyroxene
Pyroxene

The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rock rock . They share a common structure comprised of single chains of silica tetrahedra and they crystallize in the monoclinic and orthorhombic systems....
 and thought to have undergone preterrestrial aqueous alteration for several centuries.






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The Shergotty meteorite is the first example of the shergottite Mars meteorite
Mars meteorite

A Mars meteorite is a meteorite that has landed on Earth and originated from Mars . This could have been the result of an impact of a celestial body on Mars, sending material from Mars into space....
 family.

The Shergotty meteorite, a 4 kg martian meteorite, fell on Earth on Shergotty
Sherghati

See...
, Gaya
Gaya

Gaya may refer to:*Gaya Confederacy, an ancient Korean league of statelets*Gaya District, India*Gaya, India, a city in India*Gaya, Niger, a city in Niger...
, Bihar
Bihar

Bihar is a States and territories of India in East India. Bihar is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size 38,202 square mile and 3rd largest by population....
, India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 on August 25, 1865 and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. This meteorite is relatively young, calculated to have been formed in Mars only 165 million years ago from volcanic origin. It is composed mostly of pyroxene
Pyroxene

The pyroxenes are a group of important rock-forming silicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rock rock . They share a common structure comprised of single chains of silica tetrahedra and they crystallize in the monoclinic and orthorhombic systems....
 and thought to have undergone preterrestrial aqueous alteration for several centuries. Certain features in its interior suggest to be remanents of biofilm and their associated microbial communities. Work is in progress on searching for magnetite
Magnetite

Magnetite is a ferrimagnetism mineral with chemical formula Iron3Oxygen4, one of several iron oxides and a member of the spinel group....
s within alteration phases.

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