Image courtesy of Albert Jambon.
Joel Kontinen
The meteorite NWA 13188
seems to have travelled to space and back.
“A meteorite found in the Sahara desert in Morocco may have originated on
Earth, before being blasted into space and returning from orbit thousands of
years later.”
If confirmed, this space rock would
be the first that we know about..
Almost all the meteorites have come from asteroids but only a fraction have come from Mars or the moon.
Reseachers have
also found two asteroids as part of a hunt for rocks that are closer to the sun than Earth and
may sometime hit the Earth,
Source:
Wilkins , Alex, 2023. Meteorite left Earth then landed back down after
round trip to space, New Scientist 11 July
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