Sentences with word «shergottite»

He has just paid a local dealer nearly $ 10,000 for a 25 - gram martian meteorite called a shergottite.

The meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7635 and discovered in 2012, was found to be a type of volcanic rock called a shergottite.

NWA 7635 and the 10 other meteorites discovered along with it by the researchers were a type of volcanic rock called a shergottite and had similar chemical compositions and ejection times, lead author and University of Houston geology professor Tom Lapen said in a statement.