Their records showcased, that only 0.7% of the meteorites found in this region were iron or stony iron. Such a low number, caused Evatt to think that these meteorites may be hiding somewhere in ...

The high nickel content in the iron indicated that the jewellery was crafted from an 'out of this world' metal.

There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which are slowly sinking out of reach. You might think that these submerged space rocks would be very ...

which occurred in the Shergotty achondritic stony meteorite 1. He first regarded this as a new cubic mineral, but later, finding it also in several chondrites and realizing that it formed ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites. As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in ...

At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for example, make a thump on the roof of a building. Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites ...

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...

Onetto's theory was corroborated by Chilean Antarctic Institute scientist Stefan Kraus, who told Radio Polar that the object was likely a "stony" meteorite, the most common type. "All the data ...

As we know, meteorites can be split into three groups: stony, irons and stony-irons. If you look at the world collections of meteorites, the vast majority are stony meteorites; only 5.5% are ...