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How To Identify a Meteorite

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How To Identify a Meteorite

1,353,765 views October 25, 2019 2:14

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Think you've found a meteorite? Professor Chris Herd in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is also curator of the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection. Learn from an expert how to tell whether a rock is a meteorite!

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UAlbertaScience published this 2:14 video tutorial on October 25, 2019. It has been watched 1,353,765 times on YouTube.

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    How To Identify a Meteorite. Hardly a day goes by when we don’t receive emails from people who think they’ve found a meteorite. With this in mind we wrote a chapter in our new book “Meteorites – How To Recognize Visitor…

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    Meteorite Identification Tests. Meteorites are the rarest types of rock on Earth. People send thousands of rocks to laboratories each year by individuals thinking that they found a meteorite. At best only one or two of…

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