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Martian Visitor to the City of Angels - Slice of Los Angeles - LA 002 Mars Meteorite
27 May 2010, 13:00 EDT
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Martian Basaltic Shergottite
Los Angeles County
It is no wonder that Martian meteorites remain today some of the rarest and most sought after specimens for meteorite collectors. For a rock to be launched from the surface of a planet is remarkable enough, but its entry into another planet's atmosphere and the subsequent discovery of such an object adds to the extreme unlikelihood of the phenomenal chain of events represented by planetary meteorites. Los Angeles LA 002 was discovered in the Mojave Desert in 1999 and was identified by UCLA scientists as a Martian balsaltic shergottite. Offered is a slice of LA 002, one of the very few meteorites to have been discovered in Los Angeles County, measures 1.5 x 1.25in; weighs 7.6g
Los Angeles County
It is no wonder that Martian meteorites remain today some of the rarest and most sought after specimens for meteorite collectors. For a rock to be launched from the surface of a planet is remarkable enough, but its entry into another planet's atmosphere and the subsequent discovery of such an object adds to the extreme unlikelihood of the phenomenal chain of events represented by planetary meteorites. Los Angeles LA 002 was discovered in the Mojave Desert in 1999 and was identified by UCLA scientists as a Martian balsaltic shergottite. Offered is a slice of LA 002, one of the very few meteorites to have been discovered in Los Angeles County, measures 1.5 x 1.25in; weighs 7.6g
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