If we cut our Earth in half, we would also see an iron and nickel core in the middle Caroline says, 'This type of meteorite is made from iron, nickel metal and a mineral called olivine. This is a ...

Meteorites are quite rare since most materials in space never come anywhere near the Earth, and of those that do come toward ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Of all the meteorites, pallasites are perhaps the most beautiful. They “contain big, beautiful olive-green crystals – a form of magnesium-iron silicate called olivine – embedded entirely in ...

olivine, said Steve Arnold, the meteorite hunter who found it. “If you see pictures of pallasites,” Arnold said Wednesday from his home in Arkansas, “often they’re cut thin and the peridot ...

Angrites are a distinct group of meteorites, characterized by olivine-bearing basaltic minerals and unique isotopic signatures (such as oxygen, magnesium, and chromium isotopes) and elemental ...

The rusting fusion crust on the outside of the Conception Junction meteorite disguises it as ... boundary of differentiated asteroids, the olivine form the mantle and the metal from the core.

Nakhlites are a unique suite of ~20 Martian meteorites. They are basaltic pyroxenites with mineralogies dominated by cumulative pyroxene and olivine. Traditionally considered to represent a shallow ...

They're made up of chondrules, or small, spherical grains of silicate minerals such as olivine and pyroxene. Herd believes the meteorite that struck Velaidum's property came from an asteroid belt ...