Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand grains. There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of ...

They're so named because they're made up of small particles called chondrules, caused by the rapid cooling of molten rock. These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may ... which was a primitive type of space rock called a carbonaceous chondrite. It would have measured between 23 and 36 miles (37 ...