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Thirteen New Minerals Officially Recognized, Including One Found Inside a Meteorite

The IMA's mineral nomenclature commission has approved thirteen new mineral species in June and July 2026, including an ...
Phys.org

Asteroid or comet? Meteor or meteorite? How to identify and classify the rocks you see streaking through the sky

Have you ever been out at night and seen a streak of light blast across the sky and disappear? Ever wonder where that shooting star came from, or how it got to be in your sky? As the director of the ...
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Systematics and evaluation of meteorite classification

Weisberg, M. K., McCoy, Timothy J., and Krot, A. N. 2006. "Systematics and evaluation of meteorite classification." In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II ...

A 10.22-kg rock used as a Michigan barn doorstop was identified as a new iron meteorite

In 1939, a meteorite was unearthed on a Michigan farm and innocently pressed into service as a doorstop for many years. It ...

Michigan farm used this 10.22-kg rock as a doorstop for decades. It was a meteorite

A 10.22-kg rock used as a barn doorstop on a Michigan farm for decades has been confirmed as an iron meteorite from the IIIAB ...