Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have significant monetary value. The meteorite collection of Luomus is a Finnish national treasure. It is developed and ...
“Not so sure it came from outer space,” said Tim McCoy, curator of the meteorite collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Speaking to NPR’s Debbie Elliot, McCoy ...
Featuring earth’s largest collection of Mars meteorites, along with a third of all moon rocks extant on our planet, the newly expanded Maine Mineral & Gem Museum (MMGM) in Bethel has been wowing ...
It’s the closest thing we can have to actually going to Mars and picking up a rock,” said Chris Herd, curator of the U of A’s Meteorite Collection and professor in the Faculty of Science.
This has enabled highly fruitful meteorite collection missions from the MSZ surfaces since the 1970s, which have provided colossal insights for planetary scientists, and yielded many Lunar and Martian ...
The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is home to the world's largest collection of lunar meteorites A US museum is offering $25,000 (£19,986) to anyone who can provide a fragment of a meteorite that ...
A complete visual reference for meteorite classification, this atlas combines high resolution optical microscope images with detailed descriptions. It provides a systematic account of meteorites and ...
Discover how a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite fragment in the Natural History Museum's collection hid a secret about the origins of our solar system. On Christmas Eve 1965, a meteorite the size of a ...
That older rock doesn't exist in our meteorite collection, so my team had to tease out its composition from the chemical information we obtained from nakhlites. From this information, we learned ...