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the New Baltimore meteorite of Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States; Chladniite {Ca}{Na 8}{Ca 4 Na 4}{(Mg,Fe 2+) 43}(PO4) 36: Cohenite (Fe,Ni,Co) 3 C Daubréelite: Fe 2+ Cr 3+ 2 S 4: ALH 84001 meteorite, Hoba meteorite, and the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Dmitryivanovite: CaAl 2 O 4: Elaliite: Nightfall Meteorite, Somalia Elkinstantonite ...
Meteorite fall statistics are frequently used by planetary scientists to approximate the true flux of meteorites on Earth. Meteorite falls are those meteorites that are collected soon after being witnessed to fall, whereas meteorite finds are discovered at a later time. Although there are 30 times as much finds than falls, their raw ...
The Mahadeva Meteorite is an ordinary chondrite. It contains "relict chondrules, small spherical, melt-textured objects which were formed during the early solar nebula". The size of the chondrules range from "a few hundred microns to more than two millimeters across". The meteorite is categorized as petrographic type 5/6. According to the study ...
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
A Meteorite mineral is a mineral found chiefly or exclusively within meteorites, as opposed to minerals also found commonly on Earth, such as Olivine. The main article for this category is List of meteorite minerals
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The meteor caused a “marsquake” last December that left behind a new crater 492 feet across and 70 feet deep. Scientists Just Solved a ‘Marsquake’ Mystery, Revealing Huge Chunks of ...
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