If one is fortunate enough to find a meteorite, this book is likely to identify the type. … This book will probably be most useful as part of a library with strong collections in astronomy or geology.

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Prof Bridges said: "You can identify a meteorite as classically it has a dark shiny fusion crust which will look really quite different from anything surrounding it. "It doesn't look like ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are present in them and the relationships between these minerals inside the meteorite," says Tremblay. "Meteorites are often denser than Earth ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

In 1931, the Lafayette meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University. Since then, it has become a focus for ...

Mars was a frigid, dry, dead world, just like it is now. Something slammed into the unfortunate planet, sending debris into ...

Researchers have discovered potentially the oldest evidence of hot water activity on Mars through the analysis of a 4.45 ...

A small, unassuming meteorite measuring just 10 centimeters is shedding light on the history of Mars. Discovered in 1931 in ...