Was the Iberian Peninsula’s Bronze Age more advanced technologically than history has given it credit for? New study of the ...

Image via Openverse. The Willamette Meteorite is a massive iron-nickel meteorite classified as a type IIIAB medium octahedrite. It measures approximately 10 feet tall, 6.5 feet wide, 4.25 feet thick, ...

The iron-nickel Willamette meteorite, found in 1902, is the largest one that’s been found in the USA and is 7.8 m long and weighs 15.5 tonnes. Other examples are the Mbozi meteorite, found in Tanzania ...

Study lead author Albert Jambon, an archaeometallurgist and professor emeritus at Sorbonne University in Paris, said the researchers found four of the objects — the bracelets and the pin — contained ...

Pin fragment (E) from Częstochowa-Mirów (4). Credit: Jambon et al. 2025 The Meteorite Connection: A Witnessed Fall? One of the most fascinating aspects of this discovery is that the meteoric iron used ...

Częstochowa Raków, early Iron Age cemetery, Archaeological Reserve. Credit: Michał Bugaj / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Scientists in Poland have uncovered ancient Iron Age ornaments and jewelry crafted from ...

To do this, two Early Iron Age cemeteries and their iron artifacts, Częstochowa-Raków and Częstochowa-Mirów, both located in southern Poland, were analyzed.

Letter Published: 03 December 1938 Formation of Widmanstätten Figures in Meteorites E. A. OWEN Nature 142, 999–1000 (1938) Cite this article ...

Iron meteorites, on the other hand, are primarily composed of iron and nickel and originate from the cores of asteroids. These meteorites are often more massive and can survive the journey through ...

METALLIC meteorites are composed in, varying proportions of two iron–nickel metallic solid solutions, kamacite, which has a low nickel content, and taenite, which has a higher nickel content ...