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Astronomy and Space

Comets and Meteorites

How do scientists know that some meteorites that were found in Antarctica came from the moon?

Because of the high-quality reference collection of lunar rocks collected during space flights to the moon, the original 1979 meteorite find in Antarctica and the ten subsequent findings were verified as lunar in origin.



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