A group of scientists have published a paper describing two meteorites that were found in the Sahara Desert. They believe the ...

Two meteorites found in the Sahara in 2023 might be from Mercury, a study suggests, but doubts remain due to how little is ...

As the large igneous clasts in this meteorite are so unlike other lunar samples, I am forced to at least consider the possibility that NWA5000 may be some as-yet unrecognized type of achondrite ...

Erg Chech 002, as the meteorite was designated, was particularly interesting to scientists due to its age, ... Achondrites are usually basaltic, formed from the rapid cooling of magma.

Aubrites, named after Aubrés, a village in France where the first such meteorite fell in 1836, is a type of achondrite. These meteorites don’t contain chondrules — round mineral inclusions ...

Meteorite expert Tim Swindle, ... Schmitz now plans to search for these strange achondrite spinels in the quarry sediments, as well as in other rocks of the same age around the world.

Stony meteorite: Consists largely of rock-forming (silicate) minerals. It’s the most abundant of meteorites and are divided into two groups: chondrites and achondrites.

A meteorite in the process of being recovered by volunteers in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program. The shiny fusion crust on this meteorite suggests it may be an achondrite. (ANSMET) ...

IMAGE: Field image of the achondrite meteorite GRA 06129, found in blue ice of the Graves Nunatak region of the Antarctica during the ANSMET 2006/2007 field-season. GRA 06129 and its pair ...

They compared these to meteorite samples, particularly enstatite chondrites and another type called enstatite achondrites. The measurements were done at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

While more than 70,000 meteorites are known, only 6% had been clearly identified by their composition (achondrites) as coming from the Moon, Mars, or Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the ...

September 1999. Gift shop prices tend to be high, but so do prices elsewhere. Cost also depends on the kind of meteorite. There are three basic types: stones, irons, and stoney irons.