Sightings2011

Tissint fireball drops a Martian meteorite in Morocco

When: 18 Jul 2011
Where: Tissint, Morocco
Sources: 1 public source

A piece of the Martian Tissint meteorite at the Natural History Museum Vienna the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Several people near Tata in southern Morocco reported a bright fireball that turned from yellow to green around 2 a.m. Stones recovered afterward were verified by meteorite scientists as coming from Mars, the first witnessed Martian meteorite fall since 1962.

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PressDirect From The Red Planet - Martian Meteorites (opens in a new tab)NPR / 2012-01-17

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