At times, the fall of a meteorite is noticed, and it can, for example, make a thump on the roof of a building. Stony meteorites are made up primarily of silicate minerals, whereas iron meteorites ...

The vast majority of the roughly 63,000 meteorites we have found are of a variety called stony meteorites. As the name suggests, these are made of rock. Only about 6 per cent of meteorites in ...