Meteorites look exactly like Earth rocks, so we have to go into the chemistry and look at their isotope composition. There are very subtle chemical differences that sort of prove their ...

Shock features in meteorites are a sort of forensic evidence — they reveal how often, and how violently, space rocks have collided with each other, and with planetary bodies, over the eons.

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Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University ...

But not all meteorites are lumps. A substantial population, like the leftovers from the 2013 Chelyabinsk airburst , are notably conical. One team of scientists thinks they know why.

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not ...

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Meteorites are composed of materials such as iron-nickel alloys, silicate minerals, and sometimes semi-precious stones like olivine. They are generally classified into three types: iron meteorites ...

That's only if this is really a meteorite though, he said. That'll come with more in-depth analysis, he said. "If you look at it, it does resemble what certain kinds of meteorites look like," he said.

A rare fireball crashed in Maine Saturday. A local museum will give $25,000 to the first person to find a piece of the meteorite for its collection.