A rare, carbon-rich meteorite that fell into a frozen Canadian lake early last year (SN: 4/8/00, p. 235) ranks as the most pristine of such specimens ever found, report the researchers who conducted the first chemical analyses.
The Taglish Lake meteorite is classified as a carbonaceous chondrite, one of the first group of meteorites to have formed in the solar system.
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