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Elmore County man Joe Champion claims he recently discovered a rare meteorite in a load of soil and rock he was sorting through. Champion identified the find as a pallasite meteorite, which are ...

Heritage Auctions will present an eclectic mix of rare meteorites, fossils, and gemstones in a virtual sale that highlights some of Earth’s—and the cosmos’s—most striking natural artifacts. Leading ...

Sought after by collectors and scientists alike for their rarity, meteorites hold a key to revealing the unimaginably distant past of the Solar System ...

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A wafer-thin slice of meteorite at the Yale Peabody Museum contains otherworldly gems. Olivine crystals, known as peridots to jewelers, are embedded in the specimen’s shiny iron-nickel alloy. When ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. A scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, ...

Volcanoes are badass, but are they truly metal? If one new theory is right, the answer was once yes: Some of the solar system’s primordial worlds may have had volcanoes that oozed molten iron and ...

Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of ...