Researchers dug up samples from the K-Pg layer and found ruthenium, an element that is rarely found on Earth but is plentiful on carbonaceous meteorites. The isotopes, or atoms, found in the ...

Initial analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite found that it was a very rare type of space rock called carbonaceous chondrite, which formed in the earliest periods of our solar system. While there ...

Carbonaceous meteorites, thought to originate beyond Jupiter, were enriched in neutron-rich isotopes, while non-carbonaceous meteorites from the inner solar system showed the opposite trend.

A REPORT of the discovery of olivine in the Orgueil carbonaceous meteorite 1 aroused considerable scepticism 2,3. The identification was based on selected area electron diffraction patterns ...

Almost 300g of a very rare meteorite, known as a carbonaceous chondrite, survived its fiery passage through the Earth’s atmosphere and landed on a driveway in the small Cotswold town of Winchcombe.

One of the key findings from the Hayabusa2 mission is that the samples returned from Ryugu are remarkably similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, which are believed to originate from C-type ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in Allende. Scientists believe these were the very first things to become solids after the sun was first formed.

This rare meteorite is known as carbonaceous chondrite and out of 65,000 known meteorites in the world, only around 1,000 are of this specific type. Getting there: go through the Minerals Gallery to ...