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Sample Summary - Lafayette

Lafayette was "found" as an unidentified specimen in the geological collection of Purdue University and is now curated by the Smithsonian Institution. It is very similar to Nakhla and Governador Valadares in mineralogy, composition, and chronology. It shows the most post-magmatic hydrous alteration of any martian meteorite.