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 ...

As the result of an unusual find by the joint managers of Mount Padbury sheep station, near Meekatharra, Western Australia (latitude 25° 40′ S.; longitude 118° 06′ E.), a peculiar occurrence ...

ITS discoverer, Gustav Tschermak, assigned the name “Maskelynite” to an isotropic substance with the chemical composition of plagioclase, which occurred in the Shergotty achondritic stony ...

Stony meteorites come from a variety of different places in the solar system, including the Moon, Mars, and the asteroid belt. While some of these originated from bodies that differentiated ...

The achondrite meteorites can be much younger: some of lunar meteorites are only 2.9 billion years old and some of the Martian meteorites are only 200 million years old.

Some of the world's rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth's crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of ...

Melted meteorites are so-called because they consist of a rock called achondrite which was formed after objects collided to form the Solar System's early proto-planets, ...

As we know, meteorites can be split into three groups: stony, irons and stony-irons. If you look at the world collections of ...

Researchers analysed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since the solar system around 4.5 billion years ago. Published Mar 15, 2023. Last updated Mar 15, 2023.

Earth’s water did not come from melted meteorites as previous theories had suggested, researchers say. Water makes up 71 per cent of Earth’s surface, but it is not yet known how or when such ...