A simple dust grain brought back from asteroid Ryugu is shaking up certain certainties. A rare mineral, djerfisherite, was ...

The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than its overwhelmingly rust-colored surroundings.

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. A piece of the Henbury iron meteorite. It is 28 ...

The meteorite's long bright trail looked like a fireball streaking across the sky on its way to the Eastern Townships ...

The iron-nickel space rock, nicknamed 'Cacao,' is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide. NASA's Curiosity rover has found another meteorite on Mars. The space rock is about 1 foot (0.3 meters) wide and ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered the iron-nickel meteorite nicknamed Cacao on Jan. 28, 2023. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. KEY POINTS. The iron-nickel meteorite was named "Cacao" ...

Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

This octahedrite meteorite is composed of iron, nickel (7.2%), and cobalt (1.5%). Number of objects in this record 1 Record Last Modified 26 Oct 2023 USNM Number EO45305 Object Type Education and ...

These futuristic-seeming weapons were actually used far in the past. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, proving that alien ...