The Fukang pallasite at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Copyright 2014 Symeon Platts/Arizona Board of Regents Cut off a thin slice of ...

Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

The Earth is a wondrous place, but some of the most stunning things sometimes come from off-world. Take, for example, ...

Mineralogists at the Royal Ontario Museum had their first look Wednesday inside a rare, 53-kilogram meteorite chunk found near Springwater, Sask., in 2009. After 48 hours of careful cutting, a wire ...

The rare meteorite weighed about the same as a hatchback when it was discovered in 2000, in the Gobi Desert in China's Xinjiang Province. It has since been divided into slices which give the effect of ...

L'histoire des pallasites commence au XVIIIe siècle, à une époque où la véritable nature des météorites était encore un sujet de controverse. C'est en 1772 que le naturaliste allemand Peter Simon ...

The pallasites are slowly cooled (2–9 K per million years, Myr; ref. 14) meteorites consisting of olivine crystals embedded in an Fe-Ni matrix 16, which have been suggested to originate from the mid ...

Un collectionneur professionnel de météorites de Kingston (Arkansas, Etats-Unis) a fait la découverte de sa vie en octobre dernier en découvrant une météorite rare pesant 640 kilogrammes. Muni d'un ...

April 9, 2008 Meteorite enthusiasts the world over know of the Fukang Meteorite. Discovered in the Gobi desert (near Fukang) in China eight years ago, the extremely rare and beautiful Pallasite ...

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