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A fender-bender between two celestial bodies that left a 200 mile-wide metallic chunk to cool in space was the likely source of a group of meteorites known as the IVA iron meteorites, suggests new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists. Their findings, published in the April 1...

Some of the worlds rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earths crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System. Dr Gerhard Sch...

Type IID Meteorite This is the first time such a meteorite is found in Antarctica. Here, the surface has been polished in order to reveal its metal structure. See more The IID irons often contain abundant inclusions of nicke...

The Los Angeles Meteorite Location: Los Angeles County, California (original find location unknown) Found: October 30, 1999 (Recognised) Type: Shergottite (SNC) Martian basalt Two stones, weighing 452.6 g and 245.4 g respectively, were found by Bob Verish in his back yard while he was cleaning...

The Cape York meteorite, which collided with Earth nearly 10,000 years ago, is named for Cape York, the location of its discovery in Greenland, and is one of the largest iron meteorites in the world. The iron masses were known to Inuit as Ahnighito (the Tent), weighing 31 metric tons; the Woman, weigh...

On December 13th, 1795 a huge 56 pound meteorite, the second largest recorded in England, landed two fields from The Wold Cottage, at the time the home of a magistrate named Mr Edward Topham. Fortunately, the meteorite's passage and impact were observed and the statements of witnesses were taken on...

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