They then cross-referenced the data with known space ... silex stones for tool production and, of course, iron meteorites. Scientists hope to analyze other archaeological collections to gauge ...

Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before crashing into Earth. It is the first iron meteorite for which such orbit has been ...

Take, for example, pallasite meteorites – extra-terrestrial ... spitting out chunks of rock and iron, some of which ...

was likely made of iron that originated from a meteorite, researchers participating in a study by the Natural History Museum Bern have determined. Researchers, in a study published in the Journal ...

Results strongly suggested the iron came from space. Surprisingly, the composition of the two artifacts is so similar, "both objects could [have] come from the same meteorite," as senior author ...

This three-dimensional, cross-hatched texture, known as a Widmanstätten pattern, occurs in some meteorites if their iron-nickel mixtures separate into bands upon cooling. The pattern is only visible ...

Where Do Iron-Rich Meteorites Come From? "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 ...

Before the rise of iron metallurgy, humans used iron from fallen meteorites to make precious items. The most famous example of this is the pharaoh Tutankhamun’s meteoritic dagger, a small blade ...

The sample is the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit. Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before ...