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Heat Shield Rock
Heat Shield Rock is a basketball-sized iron-nickel meteorite found on Mars by the Mars rover Opportunity in January 2005. The meteorite was formally named Meridiani Planum by the Meteoritical Society in October, 2005 (meteorites are always named after the place where they were found).
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