In 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole unearthed a heavy rock that he ...

"We can identify meteorites by studying what minerals are ... "Meteorites are often denser than Earth rocks, contain metal, and are magnetic. We can also look for things like a fusion crust ...

Unable to open the 'rock', but still intrigued, Hole took the nugget to the Melbourne Museum for identification. Dermot Henry ...

The Lafayette meteorite was discovered in a drawer at Purdue University in 1931, with no clear indication of how it got there. A new analysis of the rock reveals evidence of liquid water on Mars ...

In 2015, David Hole discovered a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite in Maryborough, Australia. Initially mistaking it for a gold nugget, experts later identified it as an H5 chondrite meteorite ...

It's 30 years since a meteorite was seen to fall in the UK and then be recovered. Researchers are particularly thrilled because of the rarity of the rock type. ©Rob Wilcock (Reproduced by ...

Sometime in the 1980s, unnamed parties donated the Lafayette Meteorite (named after its location) to Chicago’s Field Museum. There, experts matched gasses trapped within the rock to those ...

The Winchcombe meteorite is now official ... Certainly, it is the most important space rock ever to fall and be recovered in Britain. Formal classification basically means the dark grey-to ...

Nikole Babb, [email protected] After several eyewitness reports of a possible meteorite landing around the Butler County ...