Figure 1: Textural occurrences of fayalite-bearing assemblages in ordinary and carbonaceous chondrites. Figure 2: Oxygen isotopic compositions of fayalite-bearing assemblages and chondrule olivines.
China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...
The meteor that exploded over the Che­lyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15 was an ordinary chondrite, with a stony composition common to most of the meteorites that land on Earth, according to an ...
Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...
Les chondrites peuvent nous renseigner sur la composition chimique de la Terre. En effet, si on suppose que les chondrites et la Terre présentent la même composition, alors il est possible de calculer ...