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The Northwest Africa 13203 Meteorite with oriented regmaglypts.

Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2jAoGVQ

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The Northwest Africa 13203 Meteorite with oriented regmaglypts. Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2jAoGVQ

Oriented Regmaglypts

Regmaglypts are thumbprint-sized indentations in the surface of larger meteorites formed by ablation as the meteorite passes through a planet's atmosphere, probably caused by vortices of hot gas.
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