The Mineral contents of samples from the Lonar crater-cum-lake in the Buldhana district, Maharashtra, which was established after a meteorite crash around 50,000 years ago, are similar to the moon rocks obtained from the first and the third manned moon missions, as per the study led by the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Bombay.
A meteorite crash occurs when a meteoroid rock (formed when asteroids break/collide) survives its travel through the Earth's atmosphere and the lands on the Earth's surface. Meteorites are classified as stony (made up of oxygen, iron, silicon & magnesium) or iron (predominantly made of iron & nickel) or a combination of stony-iron.
The Lonar crater in the basaltic Deccan traps is the Earth's largest and only hyper-velocity impact terrestrial crater caused by a meteorite crash. The Lonar crater and Meteor Crater in Arizona are the only two known natural craters formed entirely in basalt – a dark, fine-grained volcanic rock – and comparable to the basaltic crust on Mars.