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Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.
Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet’s sky. Iron-nickel meteorites are a common ...
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Qatar Astronomical Centre head discovers a second meteorite fragment in Al Khor, confirmed as an iron meteorite after months ...
New work led by Carnegie’s Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System’s oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Their ...
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The second fragment of the Al Khor meteorite has been found after a four-month search, Sheikh Salman bin Jabor al-Thani, head of Qatar Astronomical Centre, has announced on his X account.