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How are Metorites formed?

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Some meteorites might be fragments of comets ; others, small asteroids whose orbital paths crossed that of the earth. Geochemical analysis has shown that more than a dozen known meteorites are of lunar origin and more than a dozen others are of Martian origin. These lunar and Martian meteorites are thought to have been broken away from the moon and Mars by the impact of large asteroids.

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