If one is fortunate enough to find a meteorite, this book is likely to identify the type. … This book will probably be most useful as part of a library with strong collections in astronomy or geology.

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

Prof Bridges said: "You can identify a meteorite as classically it has a dark shiny fusion crust which will look really quite different from anything surrounding it. "It doesn't look like ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside the meteorite," says Tremblay. "Meteorites are often denser than Earth ...

New research reveals that 70% of meteorites that strike Earth originate from three young asteroid families in the main ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

Researchers have discovered potentially the oldest evidence of hot water activity on Mars through the analysis of a 4.45 ...