the study team turned to analyzing meteorites thought to have formed at different times in the history of the solar system. First, they looked at carbonaceous chondrite meteorites that have been ...

This project will investigate the geological history of these dark, primitive bodies through laboratory analyses of phosphate minerals in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites and samples of asteroids ...

We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” said Dr. Nadja Drabon, a Harvard geologist whose recent research is ...

#TeamCapture suggests a carbonaceous chondrite-like origin for Phobos. All known carbonaceous chondrites studied by scientists have revealed negative isotopic Δ17O, ranging from -0.5 all the way ...

#TeamCapture suggest a carbonaceous chondrite-like origin for Phobos. All known carbonaceous chondrites studied by scientists have revealed negative isotopic Δ 17 O, ranging from -0.5 all the way ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater was a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite ... layer is of extraterrestrial origin, the ruthenium isotope data from the ...

In addition, the work may have implications for understanding not only the early history of the Red Planet ... of a type of asteroid called a carbonaceous chondrite. More specifically, the ...

Those rocks are made of a primordial material called "carbonaceous chondrite" that formed early in solar system history. The team focused on magnetite (an iron oxide mineral) found in each sample.

They expected this asteroid to be similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites ... them to similar meteorites that they already knew the history of. Piecing together all of this data allowed ...