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Troilite (/ ˈ t r ɔɪ l aɪ t /) is a rare iron sulfide mineral with the simple formula of FeS. It is the iron-rich endmember of the pyrrhotite group. Pyrrhotite has the formula Fe (1-x) S (x = 0 to 0.2) which is iron deficient.
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The meteorite was acquired by the Geological Survey of Canada, [8] and a large sample of it is on display at the Royal Ontario Museum. The largest known E-type chondrite in the asteroid belt may be 21 Lutetia , with a diameter of approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi), [ 9 ] based on observations from the Rosetta spacecraft, ESO's New Technology ...
The H type ordinary chondrites are the most common type of meteorite, accounting for approximately 40% of all those catalogued, 46% of the ordinary chondrites, and 44% of all chondrites. [1] The ordinary chondrites are thought to have originated from three parent asteroids, whose fragments make up the H chondrite , L chondrite and LL chondrite ...
CM chondrites are a group of chondritic meteorites which resemble their type specimen, the Mighei meteorite. The CM is the most commonly recovered group of the ' carbonaceous chondrite ' class of meteorites, though all are rarer in collections than ordinary chondrites .
Impactite is rock created or modified by one or more impacts of a meteorite. [1] [2] Impactites are considered metamorphic rock, because their source materials were modified by the heat and pressure of the impact. [3] On Earth, impactites consist primarily of modified terrestrial material, sometimes with pieces of the original meteorite. [3]
In meteorites, nanodiamonds make up about 3 percent of the carbon and 0.04% of the total mass. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] Grains of silicon carbide and graphite also have anomalous isotopic patterns. Collectively they are known as presolar grains or stardust and their properties constrain models of nucleosynthesis in giant stars and supernovae .
They are a rare type of meteorite; as of November 2014 only 208 are known (of which 56 come from Antarctica) and only 7 of these are observed falls. On the other hand, some mesosiderites are among the largest meteorites known. At Vaca Muerta in the Atacama Desert in Chile, many fragments with a total mass of 3.8 tons were found in a large ...