28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
...which was first discovered in 1849, is thought to consist mostly of carbon – a material similar to that found in carbonaceous chondrite (stony, non-metallic) meteorites. It is the largest of the class of dark C-type asteroids that are dominant in the...
09 December 2019
Metal-loving microbe prefers eating meteorites than earth rocks
...how it reacted. It turns out, it loved it. One of the most abundant types of naturally occurring meteorites – the primitive (chondritic) class – are packed with metals, especially iron and nickel, so a different team, headed by Tetyana Milojevic from...
06 November 2020
The Moon could have a long-lost "twin" in orbit around Mars
..., say Apostolos and team, there is a chance that 101429 is just another asteroid, similar perhaps to ordinary chondrite meteorites, that became lunar-like in composition through millions or billions of years of space weathering. Alternatively, the...
