A meteorite family tree
Part of Hall of Meteorites.

Some seemingly unrelated meteorites came from the same source, or "parent body."
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Ornans
The two meteorites below share certain features in common—they are both carbon-rich, or carbonaceous, chondrites and their oxygen-isotope...
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Vigarano
The two meteorites below share certain features in common—they are both carbon-rich, or carbonaceous, chondrites and their oxygen-isotope...
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Kunashak
The meteorites Kunashak, Kyushu and Suizhou fell in three different countries—Russia, Japan and China—over a span of 100 years.
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Suizhou
The meteorites Kunashak, Kyushu and Suizhou fell in three different countries—Russia, Japan and China—over a span of 100 years.
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Kyushu
The meteorites Kunashak, Kyushu and Suizhou fell in three different countries—Russia, Japan and China—over a span of 100 years.
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Bath
At first glance, meteorites don't look too much alike.
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Hammond Downs
At first glance, meteorites don't look too much alike.
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Richardton
At first glance, meteorites don't look too much alike.