Question

Scientists have evidence that meteorites have come from which option of locations?

Answer 1

Mars and Moon are the locations from which meteorites would come.

Option (c);

EXPLANATION:

• The meteorites found on Earth look like martian crystal rocks.
• These might be first ejected into space during a collision of an asteroidal object with Moon or Mars and then it got into the Earth orbit because of the force produced during the collision.
• There are around seventy meteorites recognised to have come from the planet Mars till up to the present date.
• There are three types of meteorites such as Martian meteorites and a sample of two lunar meteorites.
• To identify the origin of the meteorite, the scientist tries to identify the type of rock followed by analysing the chemical composition and then try to identify its age.