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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 ...
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) wide and ...
Not what Sci-fi writers had in mind when dreaming up extra-terrestrial projectiles. Researchers found that a 3,000-year-old arrowhead found in Switzerland was actually comprised of meteorite, provi… ...
Scientists have known for over 50 years that the great, round pit near Canyon Diablo, Ariz, is a meteorite crater. In Scientific Monthly, Dr. H. H. Nininger offers proof that it was made not by one ...
A bracelet and possible sword pommel found in a 3,000-year-old treasure hoard were forged from meteoritic iron, according to a team of researchers that recently studied the pieces. In other words ...
A 3,000-year-old iron arrowhead found in Switzerland ... of an iron meteorite that fell to Earth about 170,000 ... the nearby Twannberg field because it contained around 8.3% nickel, ...
Scientists have discovered the origin of a rare iron meteorite that fell to Earth in 2020. It's the first iron meteorite from a parent body with a known orbit.