Tagged: meteorite

A previously unknown, 60 million-year-old meteorite impact has been accidentally discovered by geologists exploring volcanic rocks on Isle of Skye, on the northwest coast of Scotland. “We thought it was an ignimbrite (a volcanic flow deposit),” lead author of the paper, Simon Drake, an associate...

Using transmission electron microscopy, EPFL scientists have examined a slice from a meteorite that contains large diamonds formed at high pressure. The study shows that the parent body from which the meteorite came was a planetary embryo of a size between Mercury to Mars. On...

Scientists have examined a beautiful light-green meteorite that is very unusual due to its age and strange composition. It has been dated to a period when the solar system was formed, about 4.6 billion years ago. The meteorite comes from an unknown extraterrestrial source, possibly...