Meet the main groups of meteorite. Discover how they differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they can tell us about the early solar system. Each of these groups can be split into many ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

For centuries, scientists have sought to understand the origins of meteorites that fall to Earth. Recent research has provided a clearer picture, linking these space rocks to specific regions within ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously ...

An international team has successfully demonstrated that 70% of all known meteorite falls originate from just three young asteroid families. These families were produced by three recent collisions ...

What happens to a space rock as it falls through Earth's atmosphere and becomes a meteorite? By studying 75 meteorite falls captured on video and in photographs, researchers identified seven distinct ...

The asteroid 2024 BX1’s trip toward Earth ended in a fireball Jan. 21, 2024. Soon after, experts rushed to locate pieces of the resulting meteorite. The fragments — about the size of a walnut — were ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Important clues to the environment in which the early Earth formed may be emerging from Purdue University scientists’ recent study of a particular class of meteorites. By ...

A team of scientists chemically analyzed chassignites and nakhlites, such as the one pictured, two kinds of Martian meteorites found on Earth, of which there are only 35 specimens. Credit: Scripps ...

Although last year’s inclement weather resulted in fewer Antarctic meteorite recoveries than usual, scientists have recently discovered that one of the specimens is a rare breed — a type of lunar ...

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