The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. The papers trace the origin of most meteorites to just a handful of asteroid breakup events – and possibly even individual asteroids. NASA/McREL One family of asteroids The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types into specific asteroid families …
Despite its popularity on Earth and presence throughout the galaxy, there’s still a lot of mystery about diamonds. Now scientists have found new insights about the origin of diamonds in stony meteorites known as ‘ureilites’. Dr Cyrena Goodrich of Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and Prof. Fabrizio Nestola of University of Padova, Italy, led this …
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