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

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

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

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

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

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

“We now see that 12 of the iron-rich ordinary chondrite meteorites (H chondrites) originated from a debris field called “Koronis,” which is located low in the pristine main belt,” said ...