a type of igneous rock or meteorite thought to originate on Mars
Word origin
after Shergotty (now Sherghati), town in India where such a meteorite fell in 1865
Examples of 'shergottite' in a sentence
shergottite
In turn, chlorapatite replaced ferromerrillite-merrillite and was not related to, mantle-derived shergottite magma.
Ewa Słaby, Hans-Jürgen Förster, Richard Wirth, Alicja Wudarska, Łukasz Birski, IzabelaMoszumańska 2017, 'Validity of the Apatite/Merrillite Relationship in Evaluating the Water Content inthe Martian Mantle: Implications from Shergottite Northwest Africa (NWA) 2975', Geoscienceshttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/7/4/99. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)