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Is the Earth a Meteorite?

All meteorites used to be part of a larger body and they were ejected off the surface of those bodies by the same mechanism. Impact creators are giant, circled, bowl-shaped structures that were blasted out of the surface of a planetary body by an impactor from space. The lucky ones fall as meteorites but it's unlikely we will find meteorites in the Earth on other bodies. There's no hard evidence and no clear example of a piece of Earth that's been found anywhere else.

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