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Researchers in Canada have discovered two new minerals in a meteorite that landed in east Africa’s Somalia in 2020. The 15-tonne El Ali meteorite is the ninth largest celestial rock found on ...
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A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within the extreme pressures of the Earth’s mantle. The ...
A piece of meteor that streaked across the Texas sky last week, leading to numerous reports of loud explosions, has been recovered, according to the American Meteor Society. Residents in South ...
To the Editor of the New-York Times: I am led by the interest at present manifested in celestial pyrotechnics, to give a brief description of a meteor, as observed by me this evening (Aug. 6.) ...
Geologist and cosmochemist Professor Frank Brenker from Goethe University Frankfurt is convinced: a new meteorite crater ... iron and encased a core of minerals typical for the crater environment.
A new World Bank Group report, "Minerals for Climate Action: "The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition," finds that the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, could ...
Abashakashatsi bo muri Canada babonye iryo buye mu cyaro cyo muri Somalia mu myaka ibiri ishize, ariko abaturage baho bavuga ko rihamaze igihe kinini cyane. Iryo buye baryita Ikigwajoro ...
Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history. They consist mainly of iron-nickel metal with small amounts of sulphide and carbide minerals. During ...
More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...
Most meteorites are bits of asteroid, which are themselves leftovers from the formation of the solar system. What is the difference between a meteor, a meteorite, a meteoroid and an asteroid?