In recent years an interest has emerged in the fields of meteoritic sciences such as X-ray Computed Tomography (CT), which is a nondestructive method that produces three-dimensional (3D) images of the ...

Stony meteorites called chondrites, formed over 4 billion years ago, have given scientists a glimpse of the early Solar System. They are separated into multiple classes based on their chemical ...

On Feb. 28, 2009, Peter Jenniskens, meteor astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and the SETI Institute Mountain View, Calif., found his first 2008TC3 meteorite, an SUV-sized asteroid which broke ...

Most meteorites, however, originate from the solar system's main asteroid belt —a vast region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where more than a million asteroids circle the sun.

Letter Published: 01 March 1967 Stony Meteorites bearing Maskelynite R. A. BINNS Nature 213, 1111–1112 (1967) Cite this article ...

New research traces the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual asteroids.

They are commonly designated as three types: stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. Stony meteorites come in two types. The most common are the chondrites, which have round ...

They are commonly designated as three types: stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. Stony meteorites come in two types.

Most of the meteorites on Earth are stony ones named ordinary chondrites. Two classes of these chondrites, known as H and L, make up 70 percent of all meteorite falls.