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Costa Rica's mudball meteorite: A cosmic survivor that avoided collisions in the pinball world of asteroids

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A meteorite fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica in April 2019 .

It is the largest fall of its kind since similar meteorites fell near Murchison in Australia in 1969 .

The last collision experienced by this rock was two million years ago .

The team traced the meteorite back to the asteroid belt.

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