In a CM2 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite, the "M" stands for a subgroup named after the Mighei rock, which landed in Ukraine in 1889, and the "2" is how its composition has changed due to water and ...
Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily ...
Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...
Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...