A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within the extreme pressures of the Earth’s mantle. The ...

Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe ... Together, they subjected mineral grains in fragments of the Winchcombe meteorite to a diverse range of cutting-edge analytical techniques.

A meteorite discovered in a Swedish quarry is unique and distinct from other meteorites. It appears to be a relic of a massive collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago that send debris ...

Featuring earth’s largest collection of Mars meteorites, along with a third of all moon rocks extant on our planet, the newly expanded Maine Mineral ... While New York-based designer David ...

NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named “Wassonite” in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica ...

Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of asteroids that melted early in their history. They consist mainly of iron-nickel metal with small amounts of sulphide and carbide minerals. During ...

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...

Nachit, Hassane Ibhi, Abderrahmane En-nasiry, Mohamed Moggi Cecchi, Vanni Pratesi, Giovanni Herd, Christopher D. K. and Senesi, Giorgio S. 2022. Minerochemical and Microtextural Study of the Ungrouped ...

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