Bowden, Alan J. 2006. Meteorite provenance and the asteroid connection. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, Vol. 256, Issue. 1, p. 379.

If a corner of a stony meteorite has chipped off, you can often see inside small, round grains, known as chondrules, and metallic grains. The inside is often light in colour, but it can also be almost ...

Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of meteorite that are thought to be the most primitive and undifferentiated material in our solar system, and therefore can provide a better understanding of the ...

Meteorites can vary greatly in size. While some are tiny, resembling grains of sand, others can weigh several tons. The ...

Within this category, chondrites are particularly notable; they contain chondrules, hardened droplets of lava that provide ...

These meteorites don't contain chondrules - round mineral inclusions found in the most common types of meteorites, called chondrites. Instead, aubrites come from parent bodies that underwent ...

Hazen, Robert M. and Morrison, Shaunna M. 2021. An evolutionary system of mineralogy, Part V: Aqueous and thermal alteration of planetesimals (~4565 to 4550 Ma ...

She is a highly skilled analyst using a variety of different analytical techniques to investigate the mineralogy, texture, chemistry and isotopic compositions of chondrules in different types of ...

In a major event for UK science, the meteorite that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the UK and Northern Europe on Sunday 28 February, has been found. Almost 300g of a very rare ...

Diamonds in Meteorites Many of the meteoritic fragments around Arizona's Meteor Crater (and also three other meteorites) contain bits of diamond. These inclusions provide information on the ...

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of ...