10 June 2019
One-kilometre-wide meteorite impact in UK found
... with these rocks and instead put forward that a meteorite strike was to blame. Amor and team then set...said Amor. The theory that these rocks are definitely remnants of a meteorite strike are bolstered by other lines of evidence such as a gravity ...
27 August 2018
Meteorites give clues as to how Jupiter was built
... form their stony centres? New research of isotopes in meteorites suggest that Jupiter grew in three stages and while it... on isotopes of molybdenum, tungsten and platinum found in meteorites, which have inferred the existence of two reservoirs of ...
19 September 2016
New research challenges ideas on how the Earth was made
... part of that formation are issues that have puzzled generations of scientists,” said Bouvier, Curator of the Western Meteorite Collection and a principal investigator at Western’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration. “And these new isotopic...
December 2014
Finding NEO
... air over Tunguska in Siberia, devastating a large area in the tundra, as well as many much smaller meteorites, such as the Chelyabinsk meteorite in 2013 that caused extensive property damage. These are the result of collisions between the Earth...
27 September 2021
Early findings from Chang'e 5 samples shows a mix of "exotic" materials
... materials delivered by distal impacts, some components may originate from silica-rich domes, while fragments from meteorites have also been identified which after further investigation could help determine the types of space rock...
22 May 2019
Water came to Earth when the Moon formed says study
...? Measurements of the molybdenum isotopic composition of Earth lies between those of the carbonaceous and non-carbonaceous meteorites, meaning that some of Earth's molybdenum originated in the outer solar system. Because molybdenum loves to bond...
