Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

An Australian metal detectorist named David Hole made an extraordinary discovery that intrigued scientists and captivated the public. Years after unearthing an unusual rock, David Hole found with the ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...

After studying the object, they announced Thursday that it was a rare stony chondrite meteorite. "We are excited to be able to confirm that the object is a true chondrite meteorite, in excellent ...

His analysis revealed that the freshly-dubbed Charlottetown Meteorite, a common type of chondrite, possessed distinctive attributes that elucidate why it disintegrated upon contact with terra firma.

The new mineral was discovered within the meteorite officially designated Yamato 691 enstatite chondrite. The meteorite was discovered the same year as other landmark meteorites Allende and ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

The Museum's fragment of Ivuna, an extremely rare form of chondrite meteorite 'It's really important now. Next year, NASA has a mission going to a very dark, primitive asteroid. And JAXA, the Japanese ...

“We think that Earth mostly accreted from enstatite chondrite-like materials,” Barnes says. Until recently enstatite meteorites were considered too dry to have supplied Earth’s wate ...

A REPORT of the discovery of olivine in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite 1 aroused considerable scepticism 2,3. The identification was based on selected area electron diffraction patterns ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe these were the very first things to become solids after the sun was first formed.