Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event ...

The researchers also looked at other less common meteorites beyond the H and L chondrites, pushing the number of ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The Perseid meteor shower over ...

El Médano 128 meteorite, an ordinary chondrite (group L), found in the Atacama desert in 2011 by a team of researchers from the Centre de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l ...

The team also revealed the sources of other types of meteorites; with this research, the origin of more than 90% of meteorites has now been identified. Skip to main content Your source for the ...

Around 70 percent of meteorites on Earth are classified as either H or L chondrites. H chondrites are generally iron-heavy, while L chondrites are rich in the mineral olivine and have ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Meteorites - rocks that fall to Earth from space - have pelted our planet from its birth about 4.5 billion years ago to today, often causing scant damage but ...

In fact, this particular asteroid family dominates nearly 40% of all meteorites that have fallen to Earth, with two other families of space rocks named as the source of most Earth-bound meteorites.

Until now, only a small fraction of meteorites that land on Earth had been firmly linked back to their parent body out in space – but a set of new studies has just given us compelling origin ...