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.

A massive meteorite that struck Earth early on in its history wreaked havoc on the planet, but the impact may have allowed ...

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 ... in the deep Archean oceans but not in the ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Carbonaceous chondrites are meteorites that originated from chondritic asteroids ... The study provides the first “high-precision triple oxygen isotope analysis” of carbonaceous chondrite organics.

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.

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 ...

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully reproduce the compositions of large Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, in light of the ...

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.