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Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...
The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.
Meteorite Metallic is one of six new colors for the 2023 GMC Hummer EV Pickup. Check out first pictures of all-electric off-road supertruck in new Grey hue.
A metallic, rock-like object that crashed through the roof of a central New Jersey home this week has been positively identified as a meteorite.
NASA's Curiosity rover has rolled up on another meteorite on Mars, an iron-nickel rock the mission team has dubbed "Cacao." ...
These objects come in three easy-to-remember categories: stony, metallic and stony metallic. Stony meteorites, as the name implies, are made from rocky material not all that different from what's ...
“The Center for Meteorite Studies is that place…This is a meteorite vault around us.” Humidity control keeps the metallic meteorites from rusting in Earth’s oxidizing atmosphere, and the particularly ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp as it ventures to its next exploration site. Earlier this week, the rover stumbled upon a tiny metallic meteorite, which ...
Campo del Cielo features 1,350 square kilometers of meteorite impacts formed 4,000 years ago when a huge metallic fireball struck Earth at almost a right angle, as if trying to make a graceful ...