The Lafayette meteorite is a glassy chunk of space rock about 2 inches (5 centimeters) long. It was found at Purdue University nearly a century ago, and no one knew who discovered it or where it ...

Pallasites are the rarest of all meteorites: less than 1% of all found meteorites are ... 2,200 pounds), making it one of the ...

The world's second largest meteorite has been discovered in northern Argentina, a news report says. A team of experts found the 30,800 kilogram meteorite buried in the province of Chaco ...

The impact of the 1.2 mile-wide meteorite flung debris across 10% of the planet's surface. Scientists have found this ancient debris, mostly in the form of glass blobs known as tektites ...

On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a Christmas turkey broke up over the Leicestershire village of Barwell. It remains the largest meteorite fall observed in Britain. Natasha Almeida, ...

An iron meteorite found in an Ocean Falls backyard in the ... The chunk is “older than anything you would ever find on the surface of the Earth,” Christopher Herd, a University of Alberta ...

The Uruguayan Navy found the piece weighing approximately ... According to the Uruguayan Navy, the meteorite is one of the largest metallic meteorites ever known. ”The value depends on the ...

Researchers and collectors have discovered hundreds of meteorite fragments on a field in canton Bern. It’s the largest meteorite ... of meteorite hunters have found hundreds more pieces.

Featuring earth’s largest ... was found in 1906 and was first described by scientists in 1910. It was named after the river Muonio, near which it was found. Analysis of this meteorite’s ...

where the largest piece of space rock was found. Because of its fragile composition, the segments of the 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite were preserved in a resin. Lachlan Bond's mother had the ...

But that was far from the largest ... of this meteorite impact using evidence from ancient rocks in a region in northeastern South Africa called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. They found ample ...