Two specimens of meteorites found last December in the Transantarctic Mountains may be the first carbonaceous chrondrites ever found under conditions of minimum terrestrial contamination.Only 25 of the world's supply of some 2000 meteorites are carbonaceous chrondrites, representative of a celestial ...
candidates have been put forward: the Nysa asteroid family, asteroid 3103 Eger and even the planet Mercury,” Denis Vida, a meteor physics researcher at Western University in Canada, tells Robert Lea of Space.com.“They make up only 1 percent of all known meteorites,...
QUE93069 has a higher abundance of clear glass, occurring within melt spherules, glassy fragments, and an impact melt vein than lunar meteorites ALHA81005, Y791197, Y82192/3, Y86032, or MAC88104/5. The high abundance of melt spherules indicates that this lunar meteorite contains the highest...
The Interior Ministry said about l,200 people had been injured, at least 200 of them children, and most from broken pieces of glass.“While events this big are rare, an impact that could cause damage and death could happen every century or so. Unfortunately there is absolutely nothing we ...
Studies of meteorites and comets suggest that organic molecules are widespread among both asteroids and comets. Because each body in the solar system was repeatedly struck by asteroids and comets during the period known as the heavy bombardment (about 4 billion years ago), each body should have ...
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Facebook must meet "a very high standard" before it moves ahead with its planned digital currency Libra, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday.