Are you looking for a gift for someone who loves astronomy, or do you want to preserve a piece of the early solar system yourself? The meteorite Erg Chech 002 was found in the Sahara in 2020. It is an achondrite, a rock that once melted on a young celestial body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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