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70 Percent Of Meteorites That Hit Earth Appear To Have A Common Origin
These were meteorites that came from Vesta (the second largest asteroid in the Solar System), the Moon, and Mars, and are ...
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Types of meteorites
There are two main types of stony meteorite: chondrites (some of the oldest materials in the solar system) and achondrites (including meteorites from asteroids, Mars and the Moon). Both chondrites and ...
New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source
The less common of the two types of stony meteorites are the so-called "achondrites". These do not have the distinctive round ...