Shelter Island meteorite was found on Mars by the
''Opportunity'' rover on October 1, 2009. It is about long.
History
Shelter Island was the second of three iron meteorites encountered by the rover on
Meridiani Planum
The Meridiani Planum (alternately Meridiani plain, Meridiani plains, Terra Meridiani, or Terra Meridiani plains) is either a large plain straddling the equator of Mars and covered with a vast number of spherules containing a lot of iron oxide or ...
within a few hundred meters, the others being
Block Island and
Mackinac Island.
Shelter Island may have fallen on Mars in the late
Noachian period and is extensively weathered.
See also
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Atmospheric reentry
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Bounce Rock
Bounce Rock is a football-sized primarily pyroxene rock found within the Meridiani Planum of the planet Mars. It was discovered and observed by the Mars Exploration Rover ''Opportunity
Opportunity may refer to:
Places
* Opportunity, Montana, ...
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Glossary of meteoritics
This is a glossary of terms used in meteoritics, the science of meteorites.
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* 2 Pallas – an asteroid from the asteroid belt and one of the likely parent bodies of the CR meteorites.
* 4 Vesta – second-largest asteroid in the asteroid b ...
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Heat Shield Rock
Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on the Meridiani Planum plain of Mars by the Mars rover ''Opportunity'' in January 2005.
Informally referred to as "Heat Shield Rock" by the Opportunity research team, the m ...
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List of Martian meteorites
This is a list of Martian meteorites i.e. meteorites that have been identified as having originated from Mars.
Of the over 53,000 meteorites that have been found on Earth just 99 had been identified as Martian . On 17 October 2013, NASA reported, ...
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List of meteorites on Mars
This is an alphabetical list of named rocks (and meteorites) found on Mars, by mission. This list is a sampling of rocks viewed, and is not an exhaustive listing. A more complete listing may be found on the various NASA mission web sites. This lis ...
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Oileán Ruaidh meteorite
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List of surface features of Mars imaged by ''Opportunity''
References
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Meteorites found on Mars
Rocks on Mars