Meteoric iron is easily distinguished from terrestrial iron: It has more nickel and less carbon. Researchers tested the Villena iron objects by carefully taking small samples so they would not ...

Additionally, X-ray microtomography allowed researchers to determine the internal structure of each sample ... at least partially composed of meteoric iron. These included three bracelets ...

And so, planetary scientists as well as astrobiologists analyzing meteorite samples have been puzzled to find that meteorites containing carbon show much less evidence of high-speed impacts than ...

stony-iron and achondrite meteorites is used by scientists and some specimens are part of an exhibit that has traveled the state. In approaching people on whose land meteorites might have fallen, ...

Local experts have confirmed the originality of a 200-gram meteorite found by farmers around Mobarakeh city, Isfahan province ...

By comparing lunar samples with samples of asteroids and comets ... One of these sits in the Treasures gallery. This 635-kilogramme iron meteorite was once part of a larger meteorite that fell in ...