"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

some of which eventually cross our orbit and end up on Earth. Scientists prize iron meteorites highly because of their link to these asteroids that almost made it to becoming a planet. By ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial ... spitting out chunks of rock and iron, some of which eventually cross our orbit and end up on Earth.” But it’s the bit in ...

"We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from a debris field called "Koronis," which is located low in the pristine main belt," said Jenniskens.

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of Antarctica, the sawteeth on their blade got all chewed up.

A set of ancient artifacts, dating back over 2,700 years, has been found to include iron forged from meteorites– an extraordinary find that is rewriting what we know about early metalworking.

The dial is constructed from an iron meteorite material with a unique texture ... accentuated by a criss-cross pattern formed by grooves. Turns out that these two watch models are not so different ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

Measuring 43mm, the OMEGA Speedmaster Moonphase Meteorite is made of iron meteorite on the dial, giving it a scratched, rock-like texture and appearance. It has ribbon-like flecks running across ...