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The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites – and how we may have finally found some

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par Ben Rider-Stokes, Post Doctoral Researcher in Achondrite Meteorites, The Open University

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the Moon and Mars. This is probably a result of asteroids hitting their surfaces and ejecting material towards our planet.

It should also be physically possible for such debris to reach the Earth from Mercury, another nearby rocky body. But so far, none have been confirmed…

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