Discovery of the source of the most common meteorites

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(Right) Comparison of the spectrum of asteroid (1270) Datura with the spectrum of the Fayetteville meteorite. (Left) Pictures of the Fayetteville meteorite ( Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences University of Arkansas).
(Right) Comparison of the spectrum of asteroid (1270) Datura with the spectrum of the Fayetteville meteorite. (Left) Pictures of the Fayetteville meteorite (© Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, University of Arkansas).
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Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first discovery by T. Mothé-Diniz (Brazil) and D. Nesvorný (USA) of asteroids with a spectrum similar to that of ordinary chondrites, the meteoritic material that most resembles the composition of our Sun. Most of the meteorites that we collect on Earth come from the main belt of asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter [1].


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