"The interesting thing about this fall is, we have a very nice orbit of it, and so the shape of the orbit itself contains clues as to where the source region for these meteorites was," Jenniskens said.
Scientists suspected that the strange appearance of the meteorite fragments indicated they were part of aubrites, and this suspicion has now been confirmed.
"They likely came from the inner side of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. That's a place where probably there is a lot of debris, a collision that created a lot of smaller pieces called an asteroid family," Jenniskens said.
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