17 August 2024

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 17AUG2024

Strange meteorites have been traced to their source craters on Mars | New Scientist
New Scientist
The meteorites are all igneous rocks, meaning they are pieces of solidified lava. Pete Mouginis-Mark at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa says that while ...

Scientists Have Traced Six Meteorites Back to Their Original Craters on Mars in a Scientific First
The Debrief
Christopher Herd, a professor and curator at the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection, led recent research that revealed that these meteorites ...

The Chicxulub Impactor Was A Carbonaceous-type Asteroid From Beyond Jupiter
the Astrobiology Web
... meteorites. These elevated PGE levels have been found globally, suggesting the impact spread debris worldwide. While some propose large-scale ...

Ruthenium isotopes show the Chicxulub impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid | Science
Science
However, unlike other meteorite groups, the CCs have large variations between individual meteorites (Fig. ... meteorite Allende, and the CI meteorite ...

Isotope analysis reveals origins of asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs - Chemistry World
Chemistry World
... asteroids and meteorites. The Earth's crust is normally very poor in precious metals such as platinum, palladium and ruthenium because these ...

Crater formed from Earth's extinction event produced by carbon-rich 'C-type' asteroid ...
The Guardian
Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed.

Découverte exceptionnelle d'une météorite riche en grains pré-solaires nés dans des étoiles ...
Futura-Sciences
Jean Redelsperger a ainsi expliqué à Futura qu'il avait « eu la chance de faire classifier une météorite qui s'est avérée être une météorite carbonée ...

2024 The ELEVENTH Year of "CERTAIN Uncertainty" ™ / Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

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