6 December 2025
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Meteorites are among the rarest natural objects people can encounter on Earth. In a nutshell, a meteorite is a piece of material from space that survives its journey through Earth’s atmosphere and reaches the ground. Meteorites offer a rare opportunity to study material that formed at the very beginning of the solar system, long before Earth looked anything like it does today. Scientists study meteorites because they preserve information that is no longer available in Earth’s rocks. For everyone else, they are tangible fragments of the wider cosmos.