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Coat the metal in an ablative shield made of Martian rock (handwaving over how this is done), fire it to earth using a mass-driver, guide it in with an on-board chemical rocket engine, and drop it into the Pacific for recovery (more handwaving).

Of course, this also has other uses [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment




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