Using samples from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, the research team spent two years precisely measuring and interpreting the oxygen isotope composition of organics in some of these ...

Of the approximately 65,000 meteorites in collections worldwide, only 1,206 had eyewitnesses to their fall, and of these only 51 are of the carbonaceous chondrite type. Because this fireball was ...

Almost 300g of a very rare meteorite, known as a carbonaceous chondrite, survived its fiery passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and landed on a driveway in the small Cotswold town of Winchcombe.

A carbonaceous chondrite of the impactor's size would ... The tsunami caused by the meteorite strike would have mixed the oceans, bringing this metal into shallower regions, Drabon said.

Until recently enstatite meteorites were considered too dry ... consensus is we do still need some contribution of carbonaceous chondrite like material – the type of material we hope to get ...

The meteorite found in Sumatra is a carbonaceous chondrite, "remnants of the early solar system offer a window back in time to events that occurred prior to planet formation", Jason Scott Herrin ...

A carbonaceous chondrite of the impactor's size would have held hundreds of gigatons of phosphorus, Drabon said. The second ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe these were the very first things to become solids after the sun was first formed.