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The twisty-turny story of the Lafayette meteorite.

Áine O'Brien, a researcher at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom, had crushed a tiny sample of the meteorite in 2019, hoping to find organic molecules. Clockwise from top left: Hermanze Edwin Fauntleroy, Clinton Edward Shaw, Julius Lee Morgan, and Clyde Silance.Credit: Purdue University "I'm proud that, a century after it reached Earth, we're finally able to reconstruct the circumstances of its landing," O'Brien said in a statement, "and get closer than we've ever been to giving credit to the Black student who found it."

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