This is the first time the sound and image of a meteor falling has been documented on video, a University of Alberta ...

Their millimetre-sized granules give chondrites their name, from the Greek 'chondres' meaning sand grains. There are many varieties of chondrite, with differences in mineralogy relating to the type of ...

And it was these collectors who became interested in Josua's stone, eager to buy ... value of such finds. The meteorite found in Sumatra is a carbonaceous chondrite, "remnants of the early solar ...

One example is a carbonaceous chondrite (a type of meteorite), also known as CAI in ... to the planet may be significant, but even when Stone Age hunters were carving weapons from rocks and ...

The meteorite, which weighs over 37 pounds and is composed of a high percentage of iron, making it an H5 ordinary chondrite, was detailed in a scientific paper published by the researchers.