Get to know the main groups of meteorite. They differ in their amount of iron-nickel metal and what they reveal about the early solar system. Most iron meteorites are thought to be the cores of ...
Some readers took issue with that statement, noting correctly that meteoric iron and gold were worked long before our ancestors were able to locate and exploit natural copper outcroppings ...
It was thought they had been brought to Earth by meteors. Canada’s Iron Creek meteorite was treated as a sacred object and Native Americans left gifts for it. The Greek philosopher Aristotle ...