These were meteorites that came from Vesta (the second largest asteroid in the Solar System), the Moon, and Mars, and are known as achondrites. "Meteorites fall into two broad categories ...

Murphy has been putting together a catalog of Colorado meteorites and hopes to publish soon. The museum's collection of iron, stony-iron and achondrite meteorites is used by scientists and some ...

Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides insight into the universe's early stages, from small rocky bodies to ...

This new analysis (led by Jennifer Mitchell at the University of Minnesota) looked at the coarse-grained achondrite that was originally discovered in Algeria in 2023, and found that the rock didn’t ...