Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

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 ...

As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in collections around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts. They are thought to ...

Common iron meteorite prices are generally in the range of US$0.50 to US$5.00 per gram. Stone meteorites are much scarcer and priced in the US$2.00 to US$20.00 per gram range for the more common ...

If we cut our Earth in half, we would also see an iron and nickel core in the middle Caroline says, 'This type of meteorite is made from iron, nickel metal and a mineral called olivine. This is a ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash ... Subsequent x-rays showed that the stone was riddled with microscopic diamonds ...

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...

A theory has long existed that the interaction between two types of meteorite, one of iron, and another of silicon-rich stone, caught up in a cloud of dust and gas, were responsible for the ...