Transcript Martian obsession by Eric Hand Science Volume 346(6213):1044

Martian obsession
by Eric Hand
Science
Volume 346(6213):1044-1049
November 28, 2014
Published by AAAS
Jay Piatek, a doctor and meteorite collector from Indianapolis, controls two-thirds of the 2
kilograms of Black Beauty known to exist.
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In 2012 and 2013, hundreds of meteorite hunters combed the sands of the western Sahara for
Black Beauty—and found pieces like this 241-gram specimen.
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Rock of agesBlack Beauty is a breccia, or a rock made of smaller rocks—as this slice of the
original 320-gram mass reveals.1.
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River of rocksIn a nowhere place called Rabt Sbayta, meteorite hunters found pieces of Black
Beauty across a strewn field more than 10 kilometers long.
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