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Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
A new study details the findings of two meteorites that likely originated from Mercury and might provide clues about its ...
Rocks found on Earth may have originated from Mercury: a potential breakthrough for astronomers.
Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...
Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...
NWA 16788 was unearthed in November 2023 by a meteorite hunter in the remote Agadez region of Niger, a location better known ...
Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...
Both of the meteorites contain olivine and pyroxene, as well as minor albitic plagioclase and oldhamite, which the team explains is consistent with predictions for the composition of Mercury's ...