Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the outer solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. By analyzing these ancient ...

“We noticed that there’s a perfect overlap with carbonaceous chondrite signatures,” Goderis said. Therefore, the asteroid ...

Determinations of uranium and thorium in carbonaceous chondrites by neutron activation show that both uranium and thorium are inhomogeneously distributed within Type I and are generally ...

I am unravelling the history of an unusual group of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that are believed to be similar to a certain group of water bearing asteroids; two of which are the targets of a ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe these were the very first things to become solids after the sun was first formed.

A REPORT of the discovery of olivine in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite 1 aroused considerable scepticism 2,3. The identification was based on selected area electron diffraction patterns ...