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Diyodar Meteorite
February 19 , 2023
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- Researchers have confirmed that a meteorite that crashed in two villages of Gujarat is a rare aubrite.
- The pieces that fell in the two villages have been dubbed the Diyodar meteorite.
- Aubrite meteorite is a coarse-grained igneous rock that formed in oxygen-poor conditions and contains exotic minerals not found on Earth.
- India has seen hundreds of meteorite crashes, but this is only the second recorded crash of an aubrite.
- The First one was on December 2, 1852, in Basti, Uttar Pradesh.
- Worldwide, aubrites have crashed in at least 12 locations since 1836, including three in Africa and six in the U.S.
- Meteors are pieces of some solid object in space that broke away, descended onto a planet or moon, and managed to reach the surface.
- Once they reached surface, they are called meteorites.
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