The full-color images are taken in plane- and cross-polarized light and reflected light, and arranged to highlight textural variations in meteorites. Specimens are grouped to show the effects of ...

THE Woodbine iron meteorite is a rare type in that it contains 15.5 per cent of silicate inclusions 1, which are different from the silicate phase of mesosiderite (pyroxeneplagioclase stony-iron ...

and the closest analogue we have are iron meteorites. So it made sense to name a mineral after her and recognise her contributions to science," said Prof Chris Herd who curates the University of ...

It was a pallasite, a rare and dazzling class of meteorites that offer clues to the formation of planets, stars, and the ...

Iron meteorites are rare, however, especially in Antarctica. Less than 1% of all the space rocks recovered in searches on the continent are of the metal type, compared with about 5% elsewhere in ...