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A new study details the findings of two meteorites that likely originated from Mercury and might provide clues about its ...
Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...
Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...
Two meteorites discovered in the Sahara Desert could potentially be fragments of Mercury that broke off during a collision in ...
Found in the Sahara Desert, the space rocks contain some materials we haven’t detected on Mercury, but we’re not ruling it ...
Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...
The meteorite experienced some alteration on Earth, evident from subchondritic Re/Os, and redistribution of rhenium within the sample. LEW 88763 is texturally similar to winonaites, has a Delta O-17 ...
Meteorites littered across the planet can also contain details of this tumultuous period of the early Solar System, and a new analysis of one such meteorite—known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 15915—shows ...
A field or fields north of Jacksonville Correctional Center could be hiding valuable meteorites that have gone undiscovered for nearly 20 years. Part-time meteorite hunter Joe Kerchner of Mendota ...
This method was extended to all meteorite families, unveiling the primary sources of carbonaceous chondrites and achondrites, adding to those from the Moon, Mars, and Vesta. Consequently, the origin ...
"Meteorites fall into two broad categories, chondrites, which are almost pristine pieces of the early solar system before planets formed, and achondrites, which come from differentiated bodies; i ...