Fossil Meteorite (IMAGE)

Field Museum

Fossil Meteorite

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This is a 466-million-year-old fossil meteorite, created in the same asteroid collision that caused the dust that led to an ice age. Along the top of the photo is the fossil of a squid-like creature called a nautiloid.

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(c) Field Museum, John Weinstein

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