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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox meteorite<br />
|Name = Shergotty meteorite<br />
|Alternative names =Sherghati meteorite <br />
|Image = Shergotty meteorite.jpg<br />
|Image_caption = 50 milligram fragment of the Shergotty meteorite<br />
|Type = [[Achondrite]]<br />
|Class = [[Martian meteorite]]<br />
|Group = [[Shergottite]]<br />
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|Parent body = [[Mars]]<br />
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|Country = [[India]]<br />
|Region = [[Sherghati]], [[Gaya district]], [[Bihar, India|Bihar]]<br />
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|Observed_fall = <br />
|Fall_date = 1865-08-25<br />
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|TKW = {{Convert|5|kg|adj=on}}<br />
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}}The '''Shergotty meteorite''' (Named after [[Sherghati]]) is the first example of the shergottite [[Martian meteorite]] family. It was a {{Convert|5|kg|adj=on}} meteorite which fell to Earth at [[Sherghati]], in the [[Gaya district]], [[Bihar, India]] on 25 August 1865, and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/shergotty.html|title=Shergotty Meteorite|work=[[JPL]]|publisher=[[NASA]]|first=Ron|last=Baalke}}</ref> [[Radiometric dating]] indicates that it solidified from a volcanic [[magma]] about 4.1 billion years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Bouvier|first=A.|display-authors=etal |date=2009|title=Martian meteorite chronology and the evolution of the interior of Mars|journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters|volume=280|issue=1–4|pages=285–295|doi=10.1016/j.epsl.2009.01.042|bibcode=2009E&PSL.280..285B}}</ref> It is composed mostly of [[pyroxene]] and is thought to have undergone preterrestrial [[aqueous]] alteration for several centuries. Certain features within its interior are suggestive of being remnants of [[biofilm]] and their associated [[microbial communities]].<ref name="meteoritos-Bio">{{Cite journal|url=http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/6142.pdf|title=Evidence for ancient Martian life|pages=6142|first1=E. K.|last1=Gibson Jr.|first2=F.|last2=Westall|first3=D. S.|last3=McKay|first4=K.|last4=Thomas-Keprta|first5=S.|last5=Wentworth|first6=C. S.|last6=Romanek|publisher=[[NASA]]|journal=[[Johnson Space Center]]|location=[[Houston Texas]]|bibcode=1999ficm.conf.6142G|year=1999}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[ALH84001]] meteorite<br />
* [[Glossary of meteoritics]]<br />
* [[Life on Mars (planet)|Life on Mars]]<br />
* [[List of meteorites on Mars]]<br />
* [[Nakhla meteorite]] <br />
* [[NWA 7034]] meteorite<br />
* [[Yamato 000593]] meteorite<br />
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