Gallery: See to Believe: The $5 Million Meteorite Collection
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*Naveen Jain with his otherworldly collection at his home in Medina, Washington. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*Naveen and his rock collection. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*The [__NWA 6355__](http://www.aerolite.org/museum/nwa6355-13-9.htm) specimen is close in bulk chemical composition to the Apollo 16 soil samples. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*The [__Nakhla Meteorite__](http://smithsonianscience.org/2011/06/nakhla-meteorite-sample/) was witnessed falling on June 28, 1911 in the Alexandria region of Egypt. It’s one of three types of Martian meteorites. (SNC – Shergotty, Nakhla, Chassigny). (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*The __Gujba Meteorite__ fell on April 3, 1984 in Yobe, Nigeria. This is a type of chondrite, related to the carbonaceous chondrites, but with chondrules of metal. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*According to NASA, researchers have found that some of the building blocks of DNA found in meteorites, such as the [__Murchison Meteorite__](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080613092514.htm) above, were actually created in space — lending weight to the idea that life on Earth began with materials from the cosmos. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
Jose Mandojana07sikhote-alin-meteorite
*The [__Sikhote-Alin Meteorite__](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhote-‐Alin_meteorite) fell in 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in eastern Siberia and is one of the largest falls ever observed. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*The __Tagish Lake Meteorite__ is 4.5 billion years old and contains an assortment of organic matter, including amino acids, the building blocks of protein. (Photo: José Mandojana)*
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*The __Chassigny Meteorite__ was sighted on Oct 3, 1815 in the Alexandria region of Egypt. It's one of the rarest of meteorites. (SNC – Shergotty, Nakhla, Chassigny) (Photo: José Mandojana)*
