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Such explosions occur on carbon-rich meteorites, but not on carbon-poor ones," said author Kosuke Kurosawa, an astrophysicist at Kobe University in Japan, in a press release.
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In carbon-containing meteorites, impacts create extremely hot carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gases (yellow). Kosuke Kurosawa, lead author of an April 2025 study about the phenomenon, said ...
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...
“Carbon-rich meteorites are some of the most chemically primitive materials we can study—they contain water, organic molecules and even amino acids,” said Patrick Shober, ...
The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare type of carbon-rich rock called a carbonaceous chondrite and the first of its kind ever found in the U.K. Only about 4 to 5 percent of all meteorites found on ...
In addition to carbon, carbonaceous chondrite meteorites contain calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, or CAIs. These CAIs are the oldest known solids in the solar system, ...
Stony meteorites called chondrites, formed over 4 billion years ago, have given scientists a glimpse of the early Solar System. They are separated into multiple classes based on their chemical ...
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