Researchers trace 70% of meteorites to 3 families of asteroids
Meteorite El Médano 128, an ordinary chondrite (group L), discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2011 by a team of ...
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How did the building blocks of life arrive on Earth? Zinc fingerprints in meteorites offer clues
An iron meteorite from the core of a molten planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from an unmolten “primitive” ...
Earth may have had all the elements necessary for life, contrary to theories that they came from meteorites.
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain For many years, scientists have predicted that many elements essential to life, such as sulfur and ...
Meteorites are likely a source of nitrogen for early Earth, study of samples from Ryugu finds
(A) Magnetite particles found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu. The magnetite grains have a round shape because they grew ...
