meteorites

  • German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System In His Front Yard

    German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System In His Front Yard

    Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that the rock, the remnant of a daytime bolide that impacted Earth with an energy of 0.48 kilotons of TNT (around this much), is a carbonaceous chondrite—the kind of meteor that contains material from the earliest epoch of…