At over 4.5 billion years old, chondrites are some of the most primitive and pristine rocks in the solar system ... There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to ...

Using a new analytical technique, the team looked at different kinds of chondrite meteorites, a type of primitive meteorite approximately 4.6 billion years old. Dr Patricia Clay, lead author of the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

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 ...

and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Please credit Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early ... which was a primitive type of space rock called a carbonaceous chondrite. It would have measured between 23 and 36 miles (37 to 58 ...

These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three asteroid families called Massalia, Karin, and ...

Unlike meteorites derived ... underscore the susceptibility of primitive meteorite spectra to terrestrial weathering. The study suggests that actual CI chondrite parent bodies likely exhibit ...

Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of meteorite that are thought to be the most primitive ... mantle cooling and crustal growth that the chondrules did not experience. Keywords: Chondrite, Chondrule, ...

of meteorite that was found in Ukraine in the late 19th Century. "Carbonaceous chondrites are probably the oldest and most primitive extra-terrestrial materials we have available to study," said ...

Of the approximately 65,000 meteorites in collections worldwide, only 1,206 had eyewitnesses to their fall, and of these only 51 are of the carbonaceous chondrite type. Because this fireball was ...