The Tellus Science Museum announced last week that it acquired a piece of the meteorite, which created a visible fireball ...

The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia added a 150-gram meteorite, recently seen blazing through the sky, to its collection.

Experts confirm meteorite made landfall in New Jersey home 00:24. The warm object that crashed through a bedroom roof in New Jersey was indeed a meteorite, experts confirmed Thursday.. Nate Magee ...

The rare stony chondrite meteorite will likely be dubbed the “Titusville, N.J.,” after the location where it smashed through a roof, officials said.

Especially interesting to meteoriticists are inclusions in meteorites called chondrules (the origin of the word “chondrite”), which are, as geochemist Alan E. Rubin of the University of ...

The 6-inch-by-4-inch object is a rare stony chondrite meteorite, the experts said. They came to the conclusion after a visual examination, density measurements, scanning electron microscope images ...

Shannon Graham, an assistant professor of physics at the college who helped analyze the rock, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the chondrite meteorite, which contains low levels of iron, is one ...

The authenticity of a purported meteorite that crashed into a central New Jersey home this week has been confirmed by local academics. The 6-by-4-inch, 2.2-pound stony chondrite meteorite was ...

Research has also shown that some early chondrite meteorites contained radioactive forms of elements like aluminum that release a form of high-energy radiation called gamma rays when they decay.

"We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from a debris field called 'Koronis,' which is located low in the pristine main belt," said Jenniskens.

Earlier this year, Pegasus Distillerie announced Shooting Star Vodka, a limited run of vodka infused with an “ordinary chondrite” meteorite. Recovered in 1977 in Nebraska, ...