Eric Mac Lennan and meteorite CY (IMAGE)

University of Helsinki

Eric Mac Lennan and meteorite CY

Caption

Postdoctoral Researcher Eric MacLennan holds in his hands a very rare type of meteorite, the so-called CY carbonaceous chondrite. Only six specimens of the same type are known. The sample is on loan from the Natural History Museum in London.

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Susan Heikkinen

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