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Early Earth was bombarded by meteors which played a crucial role in disrupting and recycling Earth’s first crust.

Early Earth’s first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline

Planetesimal collisions during planet formation in the early solar system Image courtesy: ASU/Kouji Kanba

Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth’s missing elements

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum. Credit: Captmondo

What’s Inside Meteorites?

Mount Everest officially stands at 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) above sea level

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests...

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Fukang Meteorite: The Most Expensive Meteorite

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More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs

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Meteorite analysis shows Earth’s building blocks contained water

Microsphere from the meteorite: The iron oxide spherule found in the “Domaine du Météore” crater has a core composed of minerals typical for the crater environment and also contains a large number of microdiamonds. Photo: Frank Brenker, Goethe University Frankfurt

Meteorite crater discovered in French winery

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Meteorites reveal likely origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals

A depiction of an asteroid heading toward Earth, with the moon in the background. (Image credit: Juan Gartner via Getty Images)

The largest meteorite impacts on Earth

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Evidence that giant meteorite impacts created the continents

The asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars is the main source of extraterrestrial material that lands on Earth. (Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab)

Size doesn’t matter: Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact...

Scientist reveals cause of lost magnetism at meteorite site

The asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars is the main source of extraterrestrial material that lands on Earth. (Illustration: ESA/ATG Medialab)

Earth’s meteorite impacts over past 500 million years tracked

Fungi sample, hypha and sphere in a drill core sample from 540 m depth in the Siljan impact structure, scanning electron microscope image (width ~70 µm). Credit Henrik Drake.

Europe’s largest meteorite crater – home to deep ancient fungi

Quartz is one of the most common crystals on Earth

Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica

Piece of the meteorite Sahara 97096 (about 10 cm long), an enstatite chondrite that contains about 0.5 weight % of water. If Earth formed entirely of this material, it would have received 23 times the total mass of water present in the Earth's oceans. Credit: L. Piani, Museum of Natural History in Paris

Meteorite study suggests Earth may have been wet since it formed

They may not look like much, but CI chondrites – small fragile meteorites as shown here – are thought to be our best compositional equivalents of the bulk material of our solar system.

Earth formed much faster than previously thought

An example of a Pallasite meteorite (from the Esquel fall) on display in the Vale Inco Limited Gallery of Minerals at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Murchison meteorite

Sugar delivered to Earth from space

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