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I believe it is still called a meteorite, or at least in all of the material I have read. They have probably loosened up the definition and made it not so Earth centric.
Actually they have found a number of meteorites on Mars now, one of the largest was an iron/nickel one so they couldn't sample it as it would have damaged the erosion tool. It was found just behind the heatshield of Opurtunity in January 2005 (was this the one in the article?), Spirit has found at least 2. They even found a few on the Moon during the Apollo missions.
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