In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold ...

"Meteorites provide the cheapest form of space exploration. They transport us back in time, providing clues to the age, ...

A man named David Hole was once searching for valuable items using his metal detector in Maryborough Regional Park, located ...

A TREASURE hunter was on cloud nine when he realised the grubby piece of rock he thought was gold turned out to be far more ...

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Since direct sampling is impossible, scientists rely on indirect methods. Pallasites and metallic meteorites are rocks from differentiated asteroids—ones that also have a mantle and core.

A suspected meteorite that struck a house in New Jersey ... New Jersey, the oblong metallic object—about 6 inches by 4 inches and weighing 4 lbs.—came through the roof and ceiling to hit ...

During the decay of radioactive elements in the early history of the solar system, many asteroids melted and the iron they contained, being dense, sank to the centre to form a metallic core.

Most of the meteorites are regular chondrites, stony, non-metallic objects of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. The research included a detailed survey of all the major asteroid families in the ...

Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites contain mainly metallic iron. Most stony meteorites are magnetic and quite heavy for their size, as they contain ...

a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid? It’s all about location and size. Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic ...

The most fruitful regions on Earth for collecting meteorites are in Antarctica, where dark-coloured non-metallic meteorites show up clearly against the white background of the ice. However, iron-based ...