16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
... ago. Occasionally, fragments of this type of asteroid find themselves on Earth as carbonaceous chondritic meteorites; at least that is where these type of meteorites are thought to originate from, but as they tend not to survive entry through Earth...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
...'s New Shepard programme, involved placing two Clockwork Starfish inside two separate vacuum sealed containers, with meteorite-like materials. A small camera placed in each container then recorded how the technology interacts with the...
09 April 2021
Around 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust falls to Earth each year
...from larger pieces that are chipped off when meteorites plummeting through our skies, which accounts for ...the grains, whereby a higher density and lower porosity suggest a meteoritic origin and a lower density and higher porosity suggest a cometary ...
13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
...really exist and why does a lot of the dust found in meteorites seem to have been melted rapidly?Now, in a bizarre twist, ...They are found embedded in large numbers in some stony meteorites called chondrites. Chondrules found to date are over four ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... asteroid science at a fundamental level. In recent years the combination of in-situ missions, ground-based observations, meteorite analysis and software modelling has revealed the striking variety of asteroids in terms of size, shape and constituent...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... more and more evidence of the various types of cosmic hazards that lurk in outer space. As recently as 2013, a meteorite crashed over a major Russian town, injured 1100 people and damaged 4000 buildings. In the 1980s a huge...
