Indian Meteorites of the Last Three Decades: Kopargaon and the Expanding Meteorite Record of India

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Jaiswal S.* Mahajan R. R. Kumar A. Marhas K. K.

METSOC 2026 abstract (PDF)

“Meteorites provide key records of Solar System history, from primitive asteroids to differentiated bodies. Indian finds are mostly ordinary chondrites with diverse histories. Noble gases reveal exposure ages, thermal events, and parent-body processes.”

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