Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

"This has been a decade-long detective story, with each recorded meteorite fall providing a new clue," said one astronomer.

Jenniskens and Devillepoix also found a group of H-chondrites on steep orbits that appear to originate from the Nele asteroid family in the central main belt, which has a dynamical age of about 6 ...

Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Kota: Four students of Mahatma Gandhi govt school, Pachpahar, a modest town in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, have discovered a hitherto unknown .

Donaldjohanson formed about 150 million years ago when a much larger asteroid broke apart. Since then, its orbit and spin ...

Jenniskens and Devillepoix find that low iron (L chondrite) and very low iron (LL chondrite) meteorites come to us primarily from the inner main belt. Scientists have long linked the LL chondrites to ...