Editing Martian meteorite (section)

===Nakhlites===
[[File:Nakhla meteorite.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Nakhla meteorite]]'s two sides and its inner surfaces after breaking it]]
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Nakhlites are named after the first of them, the [[Nakhla meteorite]], which fell in [[El-Nakhla]], [[Alexandria]], [[Egypt]] in 1911 and had an estimated weight of 10&nbsp;[[gram|kg]].

Nakhlites are [[igneous rock]]s that are rich in [[augite]] and were formed from [[basalt]]ic [[magma]] from at least four eruptions, spanning around 90 million years, from 1416 ± 7 to 1322 ± 10 million years ago.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Cohen|first1=Benjamin E.|last2=Mark|first2=Darren F.|last3=Cassata|first3=William S.|last4=Lee|first4=Martin R.|last5=Tomkinson|first5=Tim|last6=Smith|first6=Caroline L.|date=2017-10-03|title=Taking the pulse of Mars via dating of a plume-fed volcano|journal=Nature Communications|language=En|volume=8|issue=1|pages=640|doi=10.1038/s41467-017-00513-8|pmid=28974682|pmc=5626741|issn=2041-1723|bibcode=2017NatCo...8..640C}}</ref> They contain [[augite]] and [[olivine]] [[crystal]]s. Their crystallization ages, compared to a crater count chronology of different regions on Mars, suggest the nakhlites formed on the large volcanic construct of either [[Tharsis]], [[Elysium Planitia|Elysium]], or [[Syrtis Major Planum]].<ref name=Nakhlites>{{cite journal |author=Treiman, A.H. |url=https://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/treiman/nakhlite_rev.pdf |title=The nakhlite meteorites: Augite-rich igneous rocks from Mars |volume=65 |issue=3 |journal=Chemie der Erde |pages=203–270 |year=2005 |access-date=July 30, 2011|bibcode=2005ChEG...65..203T |doi=10.1016/j.chemer.2005.01.004 }}</ref>

It has been shown that the nakhlites were suffused with liquid water around 620 million years ago and that they were ejected from Mars around 10.75 million years ago by an asteroid impact. They fell to Earth within the last 10,000 years.<ref name=Nakhlites/>