The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have ... rock layers reveals remnants of the meteor itself, ...

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

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 ...

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

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

These H and L chondrite meteorites have arrived on our planet from three asteroid families called Massalia, Karin, and Koronis, the researchers determined, all located in the main asteroid belt ...

The Richard F. West Meteorite Collection was unveiled on Friday at JMU and includes everything from primitive chondrites to ...

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 ...

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 ...