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University of the Witwatersrand: Nqweba Meteorite Captures Imagination of South Africans
October 21, 2025
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct. 21 -- The University of the Witwatersrand issued the following news:

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Nqweba meteorite captures imagination of South Africans

Community work helped piece together the origins and story of this fascinating piece of science.

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A year ago, a two-ton rock burst into the Earth's atmosphere from Space and a fragment of it was found by a nine-year-old girl in the Eastern Cape. Twelve months later . . .

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