Meteorites are primarily stony chondrites, but also include iron-rich achondrites and pallasites. Studying meteors provides ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The doghouse and the meteor that hit it are up for auction as part of Christie's "Deep Impact: Martian, Lunar, and Other Rare Meteorites" sale Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

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 ...