The stony meteorite, called asteroid 2008 TC 3, plunged through the atmosphere, exploded, and rained its pieces over the Nubian Desert in Africa. Meteorite hunters recovered about 50 fragments ...

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites. As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in ...

They also found that the second most common group of meteorites, stony L chondrites, and the least abundant stony meteorites, LL chondrites, which are primarily from the inner main belt, trace back to ...

At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for example, make a thump on the roof of a building. Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites ...

Chao, E. C. T., Adler, I., Dwornik, E. D., and Littler, J., Science (in the press). Viste, E., and Anders, E., Univ. Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst. for Nuclear Studies ...

This is a complete piece of Tissint meteorite (south of Morocco) weighting 7.3 grams, totally covered by a shiny fusion crust. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the October 11 ...

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...