It can be quite difficult to identify a meteorite, as many rocks and industrial artifacts can look quite similar. If you suspect you've found a meteorite, bring it to a local museum or university for analysis. You can learn what meteorites look like with a little research, there is a ton of info online and there are several good books on the subject. Museum exhibits are good as well, and meteorites are often to be found for sale at mineral shows.
A chondrite is a type of meteorite, which obviously formed elsewhere in the solar system rather than on earth, as sedimentary rocks do.
A meteorite often has a mixture of isotopes that is quite different from that found on Earth.
Otto Hahn has written: 'Die Meteorite (Chondrite) und ihre Organismen' -- subject(s): Meteorites
No. A meteorite is a rock.
The Neenach Meteorite is a 30-pound mass of stony, ordinary chondrite discovered in April 1948 by Elden Snyder when he broke it into four pieces with his plow.
No. A Martian meteorite is simply a meteorite from Mars. It's basically just a rock.
A rock that strikes Earth's surface is known as a meteoroid. Once it enters the Earth's atmosphere and reaches the ground, it is then called a meteorite.
it is the small rock that you pick up not really a meteorite
No. a meteorite is a pice of rock or metal from sapce that has landed on the surface of a planet.
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