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 ...

Fu and fellow researchers measured the magnetic fields of the meteorite’s chondrules, molten droplets in the primordial gas cloud that hardened into stony rubble and, through cycles of heating ...