Magnetic: Since most meteorites contain metallic iron, a magnet will often stick to them. For “stony” meteorites, a magnet might not stick, but if you hang the magnet by a string, it will be ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday was a meteor, according to NASA.So what is a meteorite? NASA says this: A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object ...

One study from May 2023 presents convincing evidence that the lunar core is solid, rather than liquid. Even more interesting, the study suggests that the moon's nucleus has a similar density to iron — ...

Jambon and his colleagues want to find out more about the development of iron smelting in Poland and so the latest study helped eliminate objects with metal from meteorites. Meteoritic iron was ...

The iron from this planet used in the smelting was likely traded to this region of Poland, but the iron that came from a meteorite was most likely local, researchers said.

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 ...

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Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but were transported to the outer solar system. New research shows that for this to have happened, the ...

The remnants of these asteroids, when they fall to Earth and are recovered, are what we call meteorites. Iron meteorites: Keys to our solar system’s past Iron meteorites, specifically, come from the ...

Compositions of iron-meteorite parent bodies constrain the structure of the protoplanetary disk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024; 121 (23) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2306995121 ...