The Common Meteorite: The chondritic meteorites that land on Earth most often are the shattered remains of tiny moons that once circled young, growing planets, according to a new study. Chondrites, account for around 85 percent of all our meteorites. www.earth.com/news/chondri...

Earth's most common meteorites may be fragments of lost moons

Chondritic meteorites may be the shattered remains of escaped 'mini-moons' formed in the collisions that built the planets

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Iron Meteorite: This study suggests that our solar disk didn’t share a similar ring structure at the start. “Iron meteorites are hidden gems. The more we learn about iron meteorites, the more they unravel the mystery of our solar system’s birth.” www.earth.com/news/iron-me...

Iron meteorites reveal unexpected metal distribution in solar system

The mysteries of the cosmos are vast, with astronomers and scientists pursuing answers through iron meteorites and other clues.

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Pallasite: One of the most significant meteorites in this Museum's collection is a 1.7kg mass of the Krasnojarsk meteorite which was found in 1772. Found in Krasnojarsk, Russia, the meteorite is composed of glassy green olivine crystals embedded in Fe-Ni alloy. Unique oumnh.ox.ac.uk/learn-meteor...

Canada Meteorites: Several meteorite fragments totaling 55 grams were recovered on Cockburn Island roughly four weeks after the June 19 fireball event. Western University verified fragments are from June 19 fireball that landed on Cockburn Island. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Meteorites from viral June fireball event recovered from island in Lake Huron | CBC News

Scientists with Western University's Meteor Physics Group have verified that the fragments recently recovered from Cockburn Island in northern Ontario are meteorites from June 19 fireball event.

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Did I just find a meteorite: A quick checklist to help you identify that rock you just found...meteorite or leaverright www.usgs.gov/faqs/i-think...

I think I found a meteorite. How can I tell for sure?

Meteorites are fragments of rock or metal that fall to Earth from space. They are very rare, but many people find unusual rocks or pieces of metal and wonder if they might have found a meteorite. The ...

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Meteorite Crater: A meteorite crater From 390 million years ago confirm there was an impact...but where is the culprit. This impact in northeastern Canada has folks on the look. Thank you Google Maps and the right person to peruse them. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago

Scientists confirmed the astronomer’s suspicions with an expedition to the site in Quebec. The discovery offers a rare case of a reported new crater turning out to be real

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Chicxulub meteor: During the late Cretaceous period 66 million years ago, a massive impact triggered an extinction-level event, wiping out about three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, including the dinosaurs. A rare carbonaceous chondrite appears guilty.

Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs

An international team of Earth scientists has narrowed down the class of impactor that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. According to their findings, it was a rare type of rock that or...

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Rare Meteorite: A meteorite crashed through the roof of a Hillsborough, New Jersey home on July 16, 2024. A rare primitive CM1/2 carbonaceous chondrite is one of the most scientifically valuable meteorites ever recovered...it contains the building blocks of life. www.seti.org/news/alien-w...

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite

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Siderophile: Gold & the Platinum Group are siderophiles. Siderophile, is Greek for iron-loving. Those of us who have chased gold know finding pyrite is a good sign, but no guarantee on locating gold. Most resides in the Earths core and we chase the rest. However...😉 spacedaily.com/j-gold-plati...

Gold, platinum and most of Earth's heavy metals sank into the core as the young planet melted, and the gold we mine today likely arrived later in a rain of asteroids that struck after the core had alr...

Roughly 99.999 percent of Earth's gold and platinum sank into the core during the magma ocean phase 4.5 billion years ago. The gold humans mine today was delivered later — in a rain of asteroids calle...

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Australian Meteorite: An asteroid impact about 11 million years ago produced molten debris that landed far to the south and across a long elliptical field in South Australia. The crater that made it has not been located, but scattered a lot of Australian tektites. spacedaily.com/t-an-asteroi...

An asteroid struck somewhere north of Australia 11 million years ago, scattering molten glass across a 900-kilometre ellipse in South Australia — yet scientists still cannot find the crater it left be...

The glass is small enough to sit in a museum drawer, but the event it points to was not small. A set of unusual Australian tektites, now called ananguites,

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Meteorite Video: A video about the different types and origin of these meteorites. Size, component material and speed shape the explosive power when asteroids impact the Earth. Other info videos available at this link if interested. www.britannica.com/video/Meteor...

Meteorites: fragment of spatial matter that enters Earth's atmosphere | Britannica

Meteorites are fragments of debris from the asteroid belt that penetrate Earth's atmosphere and reach its surface.

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ANSMET: Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program has had their 2025-26 Field Season cancelled. The most productive search area by far has been cancelled. Result is a marked decline in meteorite and scientific discovery. Funding cuts to NSF astrobiology.com/2025/12/03/a...

Antarctic Search for Meteorites Program (ANSMET) 2025-26 Field Season Cancellation

Antarctic Meteorite Newsletter – Volume 48 No. 2 November 2025

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Meteor Crater: A lot of folks stopped off I-40 outside Winslow, Arizona at Meteor Crater. A 150-foot Iron meteorite that came in at about 26,000 miles per hour. A visit to the museum and getting into the lab made my day....Interesting read. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Hike down ‘Astronaut Trail’ into 50,000-year-old Meteor Crater

Meteor Crater is one of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet. For years, visitors have wanted access to the bottom. Now for the first time ever, the narrow trail that leads to the bottom of...

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12 States : A bolide lit up the night sky on Sunday evening, June 14th in a dozen states. It sparked awe and hundreds of eyewitness reports. The celestial event provided a glimpse into the dynamics of our solar system as a fragment of an asteroid blazed above. www.amsmeteors.org/2026/06/spec...

Spectacular Multistate Bolide Captivated Observers by Jennifer A. Jones A.A.S.

The American Meteor Society, Ltd. is established to inform, encourage, and support the research activities of people who are interested in the field of Meteor Astronomy

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Meteorites: The 5 most expensive meteorites ever found on Earth. Nice read...please continue to look up...and down. Remnants from the early Solar System or fragments blasted off other planets, they hold scientific value, historical significance and beauty. www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-scienc...

The 5 most expensive meteorites ever found on Earth | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

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

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(NWA) 12774): An angrite meteorite. This rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Solar System. Discovery suggests some early planets formed from dramatically different materials than Earth and Mars. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Meteorite reveals a lost moon-sized world from the dawn of the solar system

A rare meteorite has revealed evidence of a massive lost world that once orbited the young Sun before being destroyed in a catastrophic collision. The discovery suggests some early planets formed from...

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COCKBURN ISLAND ONTARIO: 5/20/26 a group of meteorites and the resulting strewn field landed on the Eastern end of the Island. Four different NEXRAD radars nailed it. High reflectivity values indicate this was a relatively high mass fall...Good luck ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-fa...

Panspermia: Did a meteorite from Mars transport life from Mars to Earth? Mars likely once had conditions that could support life. Several scientists think the interplanetary transfer of biologically viable material to Earth is plausible. astrobiology.com/2026/05/coul...

Could Life Have Been Transferred From Mars To Earth? Laboratory And Computational Simulations Of Martian Ejecta - Astrobiology

The study of the origin of life on Earth has been broadened due to panspermia models that suggest that early life may have been transferred between planets.

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NWA 8171-More Info: The garnet found in this Mars meteorite was an iron-rich form of garnet known as andradite is often more of a yellowy-green color. Discovery is going to expand our knowledge of the geologic processes that are possible on this planet. www.sciencealert.com/scientists-c...

Scientists Cracked Open a Mars Meteorite And Found a Big Surprise

Cracking open a meteorite that landed on Earth from Mars has yielded an unexpected treasure.

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Mars Meteorite w/garnet: A unique type of rock from the red planet was discovered with the mineral garnet in the Martian meteorite. It offers a rare glimpse into Mars' ancient past and could help researchers piece together the planet's 4.5-billion-year geological history. phys.org/news/2026-06...

Mineral garnet discovered in Mars meteorite may reveal how the red planet evolved billions of years ago

An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The breakthrough offers...

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Sahara Meteorite: Another great article from a excellent publication about the early planet in our solar system that is no more. A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence for a long-lost planet that never came to be. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

A Rare Meteorite Found in the Sahara Desert Offers Evidence of a Lost Protoplanet

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system

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Meteorite NWA 12774: This rare group is the "angrites," which account for just 0.09% of all meteorites. This meteorite hints of a former planet in our solar system. It is among the oldest known rocks in the solar system. earthsky.org/space/rare-m...

Rare meteorite hints at giant early planet

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Aussie Gold: An ancient meteorite impact in Western Australia’s Goldfields may have redistributed gold. Researchers confirmed that the Ora Banda structure, a 5-km-wide, heavily eroded, and partially buried crater, was created by a meteorite impact. www.mining.com/meteorite-ma...

Meteorite may have ‘rained gold’ on Australia

Curtin University research reveals an ancient impact in Western Australia's Goldfields that redistributed local gold.

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Another piece of the puzzle: Phosphorus and nitrogen, two elements necessary for life, found in different ratios in asteroid bodies related to iron meteorites than in younger asteroids. news.rice.edu/news/2026/ne...

Sahara Desert Meteorite: A rare meteorite that may have separated from a moon sized protoplanet impacted around 4.5 billion years ago. This meteorite contains little silica. This is noteworthy because silica is present in all the rocky planets, such as Earth. www.discovermagazine.com/rare-meteori...

Rare Meteorite From Sahara Desert Hints at Moon-Sized Protoplanet That Shattered 4.5 Billion Years Ago

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

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Mass. Meteorite: A five-foot in diameter meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 42,000 miles-per-hour Saturday, producing a meteorite that fell into Cape Cod Bay and a sonic boom that was heard throughout New England, NASA confirmed on Monday. whdh.com/news/5-foot-...

5-foot meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere, sending meteorite falling into Cape Cod Bay, NASA says - Boston News, Weather, Sports | WHDH 7News

MARSHFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - A five-foot in diameter meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 42,000 miles-per-hour Saturday, producing a meteorite that fell into Cape Cod<a class="excerpt-rea...

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Chicxulub Impact event: The K-T Boundary, 66 million years ago, when a huge asteroid hit the Earth in the area of what is now the Caribbean. This signified the end of the Cretaceous period and famously killed the dinosaurs, one of the most horrific impact events theconversation.com/what-it-woul...

What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid armageddon: a blow-by-blow account

A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.

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Green Fireball: A rare fireball meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon volcano in the Philippines...with that eerie green luminant glow. 😎 www.livescience.com/space/meteor...

Meteorites Home: Just outside Jupiter's orbit, a ring-shaped region of high gas pressure formed. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as planetesimals. phys.org/news/2026-05...

Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as planetesim...

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Aussie Meteor: A glowing space rock streaked across the Australian skies above Sydney and parts of New South Wales and produced an unforgettable astronomical event for all to observe. www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Australia Witnesses a Rare Meteor Blaze Across the Night Sky as Space Phenomenon Sparks Fresh Interest in Astronomy Travel and Meteorite Discovery: What Travelers and Stargazers Should Understand - Tr...

A rare meteor illuminated Sydney and eastern Australia skies. Learn what happened, how meteor recovery works, and travel insights.

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