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A) Your meteorite is a fragment of an object from the Kuiper belt.
B) Your meteorite is a fragment from the core of a large asteroid that shattered in a collision.
C) Your meteorite was blasted off the surface of Mars by an impact.
D) Radiometric dating will show the age of your meteorite to date to the formation of our solar system.


B

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