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 ...
Two new minerals made ... the seventh and eighth minerals to be found on the Moon and have never been seen naturally on Earth, or anywhere else. The shock produced by meteorite impacts leaves ...
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 ...
I wish I may, I wish I might see this meteor shower that comes out tonight. The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest-known meteor showers on record, is expected to return this weekend.
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 ...
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