NASA’s Curiosity rover found a meteorite as it was trucking across Mars last week. The iron-nickel meteorite, nicknamed Cacao, is about a foot across and clearly made up of different stuff than ...

The iron-nickel Willamette meteorite, found in 1902 ... they’re difficult to locate. One of their identification markers is a glossy fusion crust, similar to enamel paint.

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 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 ...

The research team verified the missile’s meteorological makeup — an iron-nickel-aluminum alloy ... that the iron belonged to the Kaalijarv meteorite which fell to Earth in modern day ...

Researchers describe the features of the arrowhead and the likely source of the iron-rich meteorite ... of germanium and nickel did not match between the meteorite sample and the arrowhead.

the team sampled the pieces and tested the iron’s nickel composition, which tends to be higher in iron from space than terrestrial iron. The team also looked for elements that turn up in ...

But they could harvest iron from meteorites to make weapons, tools, and decorative objects. Meteoric iron is easily distinguished from terrestrial iron: It has more nickel and less carbon.

The sample is the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit. Scientists have studied a rare iron meteorite in detail, discovering what orbit its parent body occupied before ...