David Hole discovered a heavy rock in 2015, initially believing it contained gold. After years of attempts to open it, ...

So if the market value of a meteorite is almost impossible to determine ... "It's dominated by a bit of iron, oxygen, magnesium, aluminium and calcium - that's probably worth one dollar, two ...

Meteorites are pieces of stone or iron that have broken off from asteroids and planets and fallen from space to Earth. Meteorites have great scientific value, and rare types of meteorites also have ...

IN our communication it was pointed out that it is possible to estimate a cosmic-ray exposure age for a meteorite from a measurement of the stable rare gas contents alone. The difficulty with such ...

Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of ...

A Japanese research team has concluded that an iron dagger made of meteorites found in the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was forged at temperatures of about 950 degrees or lower.

the iron tools are almost certainly carved out of space rocks. The meteorite explanation also helps to clear up how iron tools have been found intermixed with Bronze Age artifacts. In the areas of ...

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 ...

In 1981, for example, when Smithsonian researchers tried to cut through a large iron meteorite that had crash-landed in the Allen Hills of Antarctica, the sawteeth on their blade got all chewed up.

Meteorites provide invaluable information about the Solar System’s formation. In particular, iron meteorites, which are formed from the cores of planetesimals (small planets that were later destroyed ...

As early as 3,000 BC in Egypt, people found iron-rich rocks scattered across the dry landscape and realised they were different. The ancient Egyptians used these meteorites to create high status ...