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Meteorite is 'hard drive' from space

Researchers have decoded ancient recordings from fragments of an asteroid dating back billions of years to the start of the Solar System.
They found tiny "space magnets" in meteorites which retain a memory of the birth and death of the asteroid's core.
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Esquel is a pallasite meteorite found near Esquel, a patagonian town in the northwest part of the province of Chubut (Argentina).
In 1951 a farmer uncovered a meteorite in an unknown location near Esquel while digging a hole for a water tank.
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