Stony-iron meteorites consist of almost equal parts iron-nickel metal and silicate minerals ... Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand ...

Stony meteorites come in two types ... The study led by Michaël Marsset further documents the origin of L chondrite ...

It's 30 years since a meteorite was seen to fall in the UK ... owner has donated his find to science It's carbonaceous chondrite - a stony material that retains unaltered chemistry from the ...

The answer turns out to be quite simple – previous estimates meteorites were just too high. Using a new analytical technique, the team looked at different kinds of chondrite meteorites, a type of ...

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