In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

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 ...

They are commonly stone-like, but some contain a lot of ... Crater is about 0.6 miles across and was formed after an iron-nickel meteorite made an impact roughly 50,000 years ago.

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 ...

meteorite is also fundamentally stone – rocks rich in iron ore that when acid-treated and polished reveal a jagged geometric pattern – but there is a distinction between this and the mined stones that ...

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 ...

“We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from a debris field called “Koronis,” which is located low in the pristine main belt,” said ...

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. “This type of meteorite is made from iron, nickel metal and a mineral called olivine. This is a green-yellow iron ...

Measuring 43mm, the OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite is made of iron meteorite on the dial, giving it a scratched, rock-like texture and appearance. It has ribbon-like flecks running across ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

This 635-kilogramme iron meteorite was once part of a larger meteorite that fell ... ploughman John Shipley looked up from his work on the Wold Cottage estate in Yorkshire to see this stone fall a few ...