[JAN] meteorite that fell near Jaipur in 2017

Question 1

Where it fell?

Answer 1

Mukundpura village near Jaipur

fifth carbonaceous meteorite known to fall in India.

Question 2

What is it?

Answer 2

meteorite is a term given to a piece of a comet or asteroid that falls into the earth’s atmosphere and survives to hit the surface.

Question 3

Types?

Answer 3

stony (silicate-rich), iron (Fe–Ni alloy), and stony-iron (mixed silicate–iron alloy).

Question 4

Why study meteorites?

Answer 4

Undertaking studies of meteorites in the laboratory and asteroids by exploration and sample return mission will give a better sneak-peak into the formation of the solar system.

Question 5

What is carbonaceous chondrite?

Answer 5

This is a type of stony meteorite, considered the most primitive meteorite and a remnant of the first solid bodies to accrete in the solar system.

The composition of carbonaceous chondrites is also similar to the Sun.

Question 6

Relevance of its study?

Answer 6

The results of the Mukundpura CM2 study are relevant to the surface composition of near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu.

In October 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from Bennu and is expected to return in September 2023.

Last month, Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission landed on Earth with samples from Ryugu.