Unusual shape: iron-nickel meteorites are rarely rounded. Instead, they have an irregular shape with unusual pits like finger prints in their surface called “regmaglypts.” Fusion crust: stony ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is 90% sure the space rock that landed in southeast Michigan on Tuesday evening, causing an earthquake and some anxious moments, was a stony ...

But the iron meteorite descended at 2.4 millimeters per hour, almost twice as quickly as the stony rock. We know that in places where ice flow is impeded by mountain bedrock, meteorites buried in ...

Stony-iron meteorites. Stony-iron meteorites consist of almost equal parts iron-nickel metal and silicate minerals including precious and semi-precious gemstones. They are considered some of the most ...

A METEORITE IS THE SPACE ROCK ITSELF. LANDING ON THE EARTH’S SURFACE. ... and, stony-iron meteorites that contain large amounts of both metallic and rocky material.

Was it a stony-iron like rock or mostly iron? If we assume the rock is a sphere with a radius of 8.5 meters and a mass of 6.4 x 10 6 kg to 9 x 10 6 kg, then we can calculate the density. The ...

It starts, generally, with asteroids: a small bit of rock or metal floating around in space.Of course, “small” is a relative ...

They are commonly designated as three types: stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. Stony meteorites come in two types. The most common are the chondrites, ...