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A tiny black rock was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1929 .
It was dubbed the Lafayette Meteorite as a nod to the town in Indiana where Purdue University is based.
It has long been believed that liquid water vanished from Mars at least two billion years ago.
A recent study on the meteorite has thrown this assumption into question.
Researchers from Purdue published a study in the journal Geochemical Perspectives Letters .
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