Some of those landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, with the first of these being discovered in 1815 in Chassigny, France and then in 1905 in Nakhla, Egypt.

Nakhla meteorite. Image measures four centimeters across. (Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) (CN) — Martian meteorites not only enhances our understanding of Mars but also offer ...

Some of those landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, with the first of these being discovered in 1815 in Chassigny, France and then in 1905 in Nakhla, Egypt. The Chassigny meteorite in ...

The meteorites examined by Day and his colleagues come in two forms; chassignites, after a rock found in 1815 in Chassigny, France, and nakhlites after a specimen uncovered in Nakhla, Egypt, in 1905.

In 1911, something happened in Nakhla that the little village would remember ever after. On the morning of June 28 of that year, the locals saw a meteorite shower over their village.

Scientists have dated the igneous rock fragment from Nakhla – which weighs about 20 pounds – at 1.3 billion years in age.

The meteorites examined by Day and his colleagues come in two forms; chassignites, after a rock found in 1815 in Chassigny, France, and nakhlites after a specimen uncovered in Nakhla, Egypt, in 1905.