In the year 2,000, a Chinese dealer purchased an unusual-looking rock weighing around a ton. He cleaned it off, removing 20 ...

Bands are formed by varying levels of nickel. There can be wide variation in the texture and mix of minerals present within iron meteorites, which will produce many groups and subtypes. Stony-iron ...

Iron meteorites are highly magnetic and very heavy for their size ... you can exchange it for another meteorite or receive a financial compensation. Most recently, a rare stony-iron meteorite from ...

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites ... around the world are iron-rich – these are rare and rather special beasts.

Meteorites, captivating cosmic relics, provide a rare insight into the origins and ... There are three main types 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 ...

While over 90% of meteorites are composed of rock, the rest consist primarily of iron and nickel. Prof Sunder Raju explained that the meteorite in question belongs to the stony-iron type.