Using samples from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, the research team spent two years precisely measuring and interpreting the oxygen isotope composition of organics in some of these ...

Until recently enstatite meteorites were considered too dry ... consensus is we do still need some contribution of carbonaceous chondrite like material – the type of material we hope to get ...

I am unravelling the history of an unusual group of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that are believed to be similar to a certain group of water bearing asteroids; two of which are the targets of a ...

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.

“We noticed that there’s a perfect overlap with carbonaceous chondrite signatures,” Goderis ... only about 5% of the ...